Singularity is Near -SIN Graph - Internet Data Traffic

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17	Countdown to SIN -logarithmic
18	Countdown to SIN - linear
19	Paradigm Shifts for 15 Lists of Key Events
20	Canonical Milestones
48	Growth of U.S. Phone Industry
49	Estimated U.S. Cell Phone Subscribers
50	Mass Use of Inventions
57	Dynamic RAM Smallest Feature Size
58	Dynamic RAM Price
59	Average Transistor Price
60	Transistor Manufacturing Costs Falling
61	Micro Processor Clock Speed
62	Micro Processor Cost per Transistor Cycle
63	Transistor per Microprocessor
64	Processor Performance (MIPS)
65	Total Bits Shipped
67	Moore's Law - The Fifth Paradigm
70	Exponential Growth of Computing
71	Growth in Supercomputer Power
73	DNA Sequencing Cost
74	Growth in Genbank
75	Random Access Memory
76	Magnetic Data Storage
77	Price Performance (Wireless Data Devices)
78	Internet Hosts - Logarithmic
79	Internet Hosts - Linear
80	Internet Data Traffic
81	Internet Backbone Bandwidth
82	Decrease in Size of Mechanical Devices
83	Nanotech Science Citations
84	U.S. Nanorelated Patents
98	Real Gross Domestic Product
99	Per-Capita GDP
101	Private Manufacturing
104	E-Commerce Revenues in the United States
106	U.S. Patents Granted
107	IT's Share of the Economy
108	U.S. Education Expenditure
129	Reduction in Watts per MIPS
159	Resolution of Noninvasive Brain Scanning
160	Brain Scanning Image Reconstruction Time
331	U.S. War Death

Year	Bytes/Year
1990	12000000000000
1991	24000000000000
1992	52800000000000
1993	99600000000000
1994	195600000000000
1996	1.8E+16
1997	4.8E+16
1998	9.6E+16
1999	1.92E+17
2000	4.2E+17
2001	8.4E+17
2002	1.68E+18
2003	3E+18
2004	4.8E+18
Internet Data Traffic, Bytes per Year, Logarithmic Plot, pg 80 Source: Average traffic on Internet backbones in the U.S. during December of each year is used to estimate traffic for the year. A. M. Odlyzko, “Internet Traffic Growth: Sources and Implications,” Optical Transmission Systems and Equipment for WDM Networking II, B. B. Dingel, W. Weiershausen, A. K. Dutta, and K.-I. Sato, eds., Proc. SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering) 5247 (2003):1–15, http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/oft.internet.growth.pdf; data for 2003–2004 values: e-mail correspondence with A. M. Odlyzko.