Editing Data compression (section)

== Outlook and currently unused potential ==
It is estimated that the total amount of data that is stored on the world's storage devices could be further compressed with existing compression algorithms by a remaining average factor of 4.5:1.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/188645/files/06742961.pdf|title=Data Compression via Logic Synthesis}}</ref> It is estimated that the combined technological capacity of the world to store information provides 1,300 [[exabytes]] of hardware digits in 2007, but when the corresponding content is optimally compressed, this only represents 295 exabytes of [[Shannon information]].<ref name="World Capacity"/>