This is another article from BBC News that I’ve been meaning to share. Might be old news by now:

Britons growing ‘digitally obese’

According to calculations based on the work of Roy Williams at Cal Tech, each gigabyte we store on a device is equal to a truckload of paper. Digital hoarding seems to be a hot topic, and many (at least in the media) seem content to explain it away as a consequence of greater availability of information and cheaper storage mediums. I’m not sure it’s that simple…