While every detail of the Trayvon Martin case is ceaselessly explored by the media, including every potential race-related angle, and every outrageous comment uttered by every opportunistic pundit, information on soaring rates of unemployment in communities of color, and other marginalized communities, goes without mention in those same media outlets.
In the age of declining genotyping costs and retail genome sequencing kit, consumers can now obtain data on their own personal DNA, and patient expectations of clinicians providing useful genetic information are soaring.
For a while, in the late nineteen-nineties, some of this vision appeared to be coming to fruition: as investment in information technology soared, productivity and wages both rose steadily.
The expansion comes at a key time in today's job market, where unemployment looms, cities fall into despair, even as other industries – including information technology – soar.
When differences were high and information incomplete, conflict soared.
But the prize is worth pursuing: If the right data is married to the right vocabulary and terminology, a company's information capabilities will soar.
Mobile phones are transforming how people in the developing world access and use information, and adoption rates are soaring.
New models being deployed this year will produce ten times as many data streams as their predecessors, and those in 2011 will produce 30 times as many.Everywhere you look, the quantity of information in the world is soaring.
Everywhere we look, the quantity of information in the world is soaring as we blast out a fire-hydrant stream of numbers, words, pictures, video, and sounds from security cameras, RFID chips, cell phones, scanners, sensors, emails, Tweets, and Facebook updates.
The departures area gets the attention: the soaring ceilings, the giant mobiles, the grandiose information booths.
