Information explosion
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In Library and Information Science, information explosion is a term used for the ever increasing rate of publication.
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In Information Explosion (http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/people/sweeney/explosion.html), Latayana Sweeney estimates the Global Disk Storage per Person (GDSP) as
| 1983 | 1996 | 2000! | |
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| Global storage (terabytes) | 90 Tb | 160,623 Tb | 2,829,288 Tb |
| Storage per person (GDSB) | 0.02 Mb | 28 Mb | 472 Mb |