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Joining the Hunt Chapter 1

As a result of that expansion in internet access and a parallel increase in the web's
complexity, more people are able to get online easily and are capable of doing more once
they're there. Shopping, banking, socializing d an increasing part of our lives is lived online.
And thanks to the data analysis of wunderkind artificial neural networks (algorithms
designed to replicate the mathematical model of the human brain and its astounding
success at pattern-recognition), trends point to more data collection. Neural nets are
complicated to write but easy enough to use d as long as you feed them enough
information. Our devices know more about us than ever and they're learning more every
day.

This graph shows how much data is being created (or is estimated to be created) every
minute over the next couple of years. The y-x axis on the following graph is measured in
zettabytes (ZB): 1 ZB = 1 billion terabytes (TB). The numbers are staggering:

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