We are in a time of "information explosion". A team of researchers from the School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley released a new study [Lyman 2003] that chronicles the information explosion over the past several years. According to the team, during the period of 1999 to 2002, "new stored information grew about 30% a year." Additional facts: "Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5 exabytes (1 exabyte= 1018 bytes which is approximately equal to all words spoken by human beings) of new information in 2002. Ninety-two percent...
We are in a time of "information explosion". A team of researchers from the School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Be...
