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I found the real Pied Piper and it is nowhere near Silicon Valley

92 percent of the world's data was created in the last two years alone, says Tech in Asia

Four of Pied Piper’s team members in the series Silicon Valley. Photo credit: HBO
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I found the real Pied Piper and it’s nowhere near Silicon Valley

C Custer | Tech in Asia
"Data creation is exploding," says Gavin Belsen. “With all the selfies and useless files people refuse to delete on the cloud, 92 percent of the world’s data was created in the last two years alone. At the current rate, the world’s data storage capacity will be overtaken by next spring. It will be nothing short of a catastrophe. Data shortages, data rationing, data black markets. Someone’s compression will save the world from data-geddon, and it sure as hell better be Nucleus and not goddamn Pied Piper!”

Belsen is a fictional character, of course, from the HBO

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