Hal Varian and Peter Lyman at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems have been working on a project trying to establish measures of how much information exists. This work was very recently released and got coverage in USA Today this morning (10/19).

See http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info

There's a press release at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/events/news/how-much-info.html


We plan to have a breakout session at the Fall CNI Task Force meeting discussing this work.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI (and Adjunct Professor, School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley)