It’s all on “The Cloud” these days — our documents, our photos, our finances, our music, our lives.
It’s so ubiquitous and growing so fast that one recent study said that by 2025 the cloud will be home to an estimated 175 zettabytes of data — whatever the heck that means.
Actually, a zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes, all stashed on the system of remote servers that make up the all-knowing cloud that didn’t even really exist 15 years ago. The researchers said that if that data was burned onto CDs the stack would reach the moon 23 times, which would probably look a little like my car in college.