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The Information Universe and What It Wants

The Information Universe and What It Wants. April 30, 1995: The birth of the commercial internet. Internet growth, 1995-2006. The amount of information available online is growing exponentially. Internet data, 2002. Websites, 1995-2007. Source: Netcraft, www.netcraft.com.

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The Information Universe and What It Wants

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  1. The Information Universe and What It Wants

  2. April 30, 1995: The birth of the commercial internet.

  3. Internet growth, 1995-2006

  4. The amount of information available online is growing exponentially.

  5. Internet data, 2002

  6. Websites, 1995-2007 Source: Netcraft, www.netcraft.com

  7. YouTube growth, 2006

  8. $15 of flash memory storage

  9. But while the mass of information grows, our vocabulary for retrieving it has diminished.

  10. By 2012, almost all information will have migrated online, and what hasn’t will be increasingly marginal for the vast majority of users. We’ll still be using one-box, one-click search.

  11. Wikipedia • 75,000 active contributors, working on • 5,300,000 articles, in more than • 100 languages, including • 1,794,838 articles in English

  12. By 2012, Wikipedia will be the dominant reference point for the organization of online knowledge. Tagging and voting will be the primary means of sorting that knowledge.

  13. By 2012, online desktops will be primary, and we’ll access them via a variety of devices. Interoperability with these desktops will be critical for every application.

  14. By 2012, the demand for speed will have turned all publishers into de facto bloggers, and all search engines into Google. There will be an increasing demand for accurate, well-organized information.

  15. “Insist on sources.”Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder

  16. Wikipedia’s reach, 2004-2007

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