Five reasons why data growth will outstrip processing for the foreseeable future

A while back, I documented what I called, with no small amount of hubris, "Jonno's first Law" – namely that data will always be created at a greater rate than it can be processed. This principle, I believe, is fundamental to why we will fail to see the ultimate vision of artificial intelligence (which I first studied at university 30 years ago) become reality, perhaps for some decades. So, what is driving the'law'? Most simply that Moore's Law, which states that the number of transistors on a chip will double periodically, is not the only principle at play. Other principles are economic, contextual and consequences of the way we choose to create data.