Legal Commentary

Insights into the future from General Counsel of Google and Microsoft

By Patrick J. Lamb

If you care about the future, you need to watch the presentation at the Association of Corporate Counsel annual meeting by Brad Smith, GC of Microsoft, and Kent Walker, GC of Google.  Fascinating.  I can't possibly summarize what was being discussed, but let me relay one factoid Kent Walker shared with the audience.  In all of human history up until 2003, mankind had created 5 exabytes of data.  Today we create 5 exabytes of data every two days.  The growth of information is just staggering.  But this will be a sound investment of 47 minutes.

Full post as published by In Search of Perfect Client Service on October 28, 2010 (boomark / email).