The numbers prove it: This is a data age

World’s computing capacity has skyrocketed

In case you didn’t get the memo/text/call/e-mail/tweet, this just in: The world is drowning in information.

A new assessment of the world’s technological capacity from 1986 to 2007 confirms that the data deluge has long since washed over us — and presents some astounding data of its own to make the case.