However, we have not yet entered the brontobyte era. Right now, we are in what is known as the zettabyte era: in 2016, annual global internet traffic exceeded one zettabyte. Around 1 million such zettabytes make up a brontobyte. We’re still a fair way off that mark. Who is supposed to process all this information?
For the period under consideration, on average, total labor productivity dropped 0.3 percent per year, with rises in the first two segments of the economy and falls in the latter two. Without an attempt to provide a formal explanation of the contrasting sectorial development, the following conjectures are relatively safe.