They've standardized the schools, busted up the unions, controlled access to information, exploded the prison population, effectively cornered the market on food and energy, fomented perpetual warfare, bought the politicians, and toxified the environment.
At the heart of every Internet enterprise are data centers, which have become more sprawling and ubiquitous as the amount of stored information explodes, sprouting in community after community.
As the amount of geotagged information explodes, filtering will become crucial especially given the constraints of the mobile device screen.
And while computers are getting better at understanding information, and while the availability of information is exploding from our online footprints, the relatively strict filtration offered by most sourcing algorithms creates a problem.
The amount of information is exploding, and we need better methods to make sense of it.
Although many hospitals still have a lot of paper records on file, digitization of information is exploding in the healthcare industry.
Nicks writes that the publication of the former was a watershed moment, the "beginning of the information age exploding upon itself".
"Our access to information has exploded since the development of the Internet, but most of us have never been taught how to critically assess this information". And the truth is, lots of "information" is junk.
People in major cities had more options, because a large population can support specialty shops, but in vast swathes of the world you had to work to get outside the mainstream.Today, as we all know, access to information has exploded.
Even the busiest business owner must recognize that access to real-time information has exploded.
