Appendix E
On the Information Explosion
The historic industrial revolution resulted from advances in manufacturing technology and innovative ideas concerning organizing specialization in sets of distinctly separate but interrelated tasks. The tremendous advances in computer and communications technologies in the last decades of the 20th century enabled a mind-boggling information explosion that overwhelmed our ability to keep up. Fortunately, as the principal global means for virtual interactions, i.e., the Internet, has evolved along with brilliant search engine inventions, so has our ability to find the information we really need. This has also spawned the multifaceted phenomena of social electronic networks that are changing the mindsets ...
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