In reply to Lykkja.

Hi Lykkja, Good point. So there are some estimates out there on total information generated over the past X years and most of these are now out of date. I refer to a couple in this paper. Now strictly these don't refer to scientific data but if you take recent astronomy plus the LHC, plus gene sequence data, I'd be pretty comfortable with that assertion. I'd take even money that there was more gene sequence data generated last year than there was data generated in all the years before that actually. Now exactly what the numbers are I'm less sure but it would be interesting to see an up to date estimate.