Myths and Realities of On-Line Information Utilities and Its Networking

Many years ago, before aii tsanrportation and electsical oommunications wete invente4 th€ amount of infomation available in the world was manageable and the rate at which irformation was generaled and used leisurely. Since 1950, however, the pictue has b€en changed. The pace of technological change, tlrc population explosioq the development of audiovisual materials, and TV, and the impact of communications and micrographics have been combined to p.oduce huge amounts of information at a faster rate for mole people. This rate s€ems to be increasing alarmingty, Man today is subjecM to a rate of information exchange gr€at€r than anything he previously experienced. Com_ munication technology which creates an envircnment though th€ use of various media of tmnsmission, enables information flow as it proceeds ftom genention !o disseminarion for utilization. This flow is maintained by fufiher generation and re-use ofpreviously generated information. The flow utilization to geneEtion which certainly exists firough, is not clearly undentand, The flow from generation to utilization is the kind of transmission which we are explicitly dealing with. (see following figure) In facl the information pace is rising so rapidly that most of us caffpt begin to comptehend its present 8nd future impact on every aspect of our lives.
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Myths and Realities of On-Line Information Utilities and Its Networking

Many years ago, before aii tsanrportation and electsical oommunications wete invente4 th€ amount of infomation available in the world was manageable and the rate at which irformation was generaled and used leisurely. Since 1950, however, the pictue has b€en changed. The pace of technological change, tlrc population explosioq the development of audiovisual materials, and TV, and the impact of communications and micrographics have been combined to p.oduce huge amounts of information at a faster rate for mole people. This rate s€ems to be increasing alarmingty, Man today is subjecM to a rate of information exchange gr€at€r than anything he previously experienced. Com_ munication technology which creates an envircnment though th€ use of various media of tmnsmission, enables information flow as it proceeds ftom genention !o disseminarion for utilization. This flow is maintained by fufiher generation and re-use ofpreviously generated information. The flow utilization to geneEtion which certainly exists firough, is not clearly undentand, The flow from generation to utilization is the kind of transmission which we are explicitly dealing with. (see following figure) In facl the information pace is rising so rapidly that most of us caffpt begin to comptehend its present 8nd future impact on every aspect of our lives.

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