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One of the first people to develop the concept of the information society was the economist Fritz Machlup. In 1933 Machlup began studying the effect of patents on research. His work culuminated in the breakthrough study "The production and distribution of knowledge in the United States" in 1962.
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John Naisbitt is the author of Megatrends, one of publishing's greatest success stories. It was at the top of the New York Times best-seller list for more than 2 years, published in 57 countries, and sold more than 8 million copies.
Quotes by John Naisbitt:
"The new source of power is not money in the hands of the few but information in the hands of many."
"We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is."
"In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits."
"Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data."
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The Information Machine (1957): directed and written by Charles & Ray Eames. Plot Outline: This animated film places the computer in historical perspective and shows how creative people use computers to help define and solve problems.
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Information/Knowledge Intensity -- efficient production relies on information and know-how; over 70 per cent of workers in developed economies are information workers; many factory workers use their heads more than their hands.
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According to a 2001 study, there were more than 550 billion documents on the Web, mostly in the "invisible web". A 2002 survey of 2,024 million web pages determined that by far the most Web content was in English: 56.4%; next were pages in German (7.7%), French (5.6%) and Japanese (4.9%). There seem to be an increase in Chinese sites since however. A more recent study which used web searches in 75 different languages to sample the web determined that there were over 11.5 billion web pages in the publically-indexable web as of January 2005.
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop standards for the World Wide Web. W3C's mission is: "To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web". W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software, and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.
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Too Much Information by Sting & Police
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Information Society is an of Come, riot of insanity and Force into animosity
Information Superhighway is an of A rough whimper of insanity!
Surfing the Internet is an of Fringe interest hunt
Search Engines is an of Reaching sense?
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On August 6, 1991, Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This date marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet.
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In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization. (John Sculley)
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. (Timothy Leary)
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought. (Michael Crichton)
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. (Robin Morgan)
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. (Daniel Boorstin)
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Most Condolences On The Internet: Messages were left by 580,000 people on the memorial page of the official website of the British monarchy in September 1997, following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-97).
Largest Internet Search Engine: Google, with around 2.215 billion pages, has the largest continually-refreshed index of webpages of all the world's search engines. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Their first office was a garage in Menlo Park, California, USA, which opened in September 1998 with a staff of four people.
Most Questions Asked Online: On May 17, 1997, Sir Paul McCartney received over 3 million questions from fans in 30 minutes, during a web event to promote his album Flaming Pie.
Largest Free Email Provider: MSN Hotmail is the world's largest free web-based e-mail service provider, with more than 110 million active subscribers as of January 2003. The Hotmail user base has grown more than 10 times since January 1998 – more than the world population has grown in the last fifty years – and on most days, the number of new people signing up for an account is greater than the number of babies born into the world! An average of 40 million Hotmail emails are sent each day, and MSN have estimated that their service saves 500 trees – that's about 72,720 kg – of paper per day.
Source: Guinness World Records
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