Information explosion
Encyclopedia
The information explosion is the rapid increase in the amount of published
information and the effects of this abundance of data. As the amount of available data grows, the problem of managing the information becomes more difficult, which can lead to information overload
. The Online Oxford English Dictionary indicates use of the phrase in a March 1964 New Statesman article. The New York Times first used the phrase in its editorial content in an article by Walter Sullivan on June 7, 1964 in which he described the phrase as “much discussed.” (pE11.) The earliest use of the phrase seems to have been in an IBM advertising supplement to the New York Times published on April 30, 1961 and by Frank Fremont-Smith, Director of the American Institute of Biological Sciences Interdisciplinary Conference Program, in an April 1961 article in the AIBS Bulletin (p. 18.)
Fortunately, techniques to gather knowledge from an overabundance of electronic information (e.g., data fusion
may help in data mining
) have existed since the 1970s.
s. there were over 135 million web servers.
, the number of blogs doubles about every 6 months with a total of 35.3 million blogs .This is an example of the early stages of logistic growth, where growth is approximately exponential
, since blogs are a recent innovation. As the number of blogs approaches the number of possible producers (humans), saturation occurs, growth declines, and the number of blogs eventually stabilizes.
Publication
To publish is to make content available to the public. While specific use of the term may vary among countries, it is usually applied to text, images, or other audio-visual content on any medium, including paper or electronic publishing forms such as websites, e-books, Compact Discs and MP3s...
information and the effects of this abundance of data. As the amount of available data grows, the problem of managing the information becomes more difficult, which can lead to information overload
Information overload
"Information overload" is a term popularized by Alvin Toffler in his bestselling 1970 book Future Shock. It refers to the difficulty a person can have understanding an issue and making decisions that can be caused by the presence of too much information...
. The Online Oxford English Dictionary indicates use of the phrase in a March 1964 New Statesman article. The New York Times first used the phrase in its editorial content in an article by Walter Sullivan on June 7, 1964 in which he described the phrase as “much discussed.” (pE11.) The earliest use of the phrase seems to have been in an IBM advertising supplement to the New York Times published on April 30, 1961 and by Frank Fremont-Smith, Director of the American Institute of Biological Sciences Interdisciplinary Conference Program, in an April 1961 article in the AIBS Bulletin (p. 18.)
Fortunately, techniques to gather knowledge from an overabundance of electronic information (e.g., data fusion
Data fusion
Data fusion, is generally defined as the use of techniques that combine data from multiple sources and gather that information into discrete, actionable items in order to achieve inferences, which will be more efficient and narrowly tailored than if they were achieved by means of disparate...
may help in data mining
Data mining
Data mining , a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems...
) have existed since the 1970s.
Web servers
As of August 2005, there were over 70 million web serverWeb server
Web server can refer to either the hardware or the software that helps to deliver content that can be accessed through the Internet....
s. there were over 135 million web servers.
Blogs
According to TechnoratiTechnorati
Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media...
, the number of blogs doubles about every 6 months with a total of 35.3 million blogs .This is an example of the early stages of logistic growth, where growth is approximately exponential
Exponential growth
Exponential growth occurs when the growth rate of a mathematical function is proportional to the function's current value...
, since blogs are a recent innovation. As the number of blogs approaches the number of possible producers (humans), saturation occurs, growth declines, and the number of blogs eventually stabilizes.
External links
- Information Explosion
- The Information Overload
- Conceptualizing Information Systems and Cognitive Sustainability in 21st Century 'Attention' Economies (Includes Syllabus)
- How Much Information? 2003
- Surviving the Information Explosion: How People Find Their Electronic Information http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6713/AIM-2003-006.pdf
- Why the Information Explosion Can Be Bad for Data Mining, and How Data Fusion Provides a Way Out http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm02/proceedings/sdm02-08.pdf
- Information Explosion, Largest databases