E. Technical & Scientific Advancements of 20th Century
       My Version of Greatest Scientific Advances of 20th Century
 

     Information Overflow
              Yearly world production of information (print, film, optical, magnetic)
                        is estimated to be 250MB per person...
                                    or some100,000 pages for every person on Earth (6.5 x 10⁹)
                                    i.e,  some 1,625,000,000,000 MB or 650,000,000,000,000 pages yearly
                        printed documents =  0.003% of that,
                        digital information = 99.997%  
                                   (Lyman & Varian - www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info)

              Prediction - world's knowledge will double every 900 days

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