Information explosion – this term has become very popular these days. Many people today are not much concerned about population explosion compared to information explosion.
It is estimated that 245 people are born and 102 people die each minute (approximately). So it adds up to 347 records every minute in the form of entries.
Guess - at this moment how many of them are shopping in shops and markets where they record information of the consumer transaction. The number is big and hard to guess. This adds up to some more hundreds of shopping records every minute.
Hospitals are a very sophisticated these days. They have improved the average life of a human being to 65 years from 40 years. How many people are taking treatment in hospitals where every small detail of the patient is recorded? This adds up to some tens of records (lets assume) for every minute.
News sources are updated every minute. It is not one website or one news channel or one newspaper. There are thousands of them which many times record the same news but in respective data bases.
When all the information is added together, you can know what is feeding information explosion.
It is estimated that 245 people are born and 102 people die each minute (approximately). So it adds up to 347 records every minute in the form of entries.
Guess - at this moment how many of them are shopping in shops and markets where they record information of the consumer transaction. The number is big and hard to guess. This adds up to some more hundreds of shopping records every minute.
Hospitals are a very sophisticated these days. They have improved the average life of a human being to 65 years from 40 years. How many people are taking treatment in hospitals where every small detail of the patient is recorded? This adds up to some tens of records (lets assume) for every minute.
News sources are updated every minute. It is not one website or one news channel or one newspaper. There are thousands of them which many times record the same news but in respective data bases.
When all the information is added together, you can know what is feeding information explosion.
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