6. Read Elsewhere

1. According to International Technology Group of Los Altos, California, the typical Fortune 500 company of 1970 possessed about 8 billion characters of electronic data. By 1990, the same company's data banks had increased to nearly 28 trillion characters. By the turn of the century, the same company's repositories will balloon to over 400 trillion characters, gobbling up a staggering 400 terabytes of mass storage." (from Montreal Business Magazine, Vol; 7, No. 4, p. 42; October 1995)

2. "A study by the Panos Institute, a non-governmental organization funded largely by Scandinavian countries, said 70 per cent of computers linked up to the network were in the United States, while fewer than 10 African countries were connected.

   (...)

   According to a recent Internet Society survey, there are about 3.4 million "host" computers hooked up to the Internet in the United States and just over 500,000 in Western Europe.

   By contrast, Africa had just 27,000 hosts, Central and South America 16,000 and the Middle East 13,800." (From Mark John, "Information gap threatens poor nations", Reuters)

3. WHO'S ONLINE?
   • 37 million, or 17% of the U.S. and Canadian population 16 and older, have access to the Internet;
   • 24 million used the Internet in the past three months;
   • They spend an average of 5 hr. 28 min. on the Internet per week;
   • 34% are women;
   • 66% reached the Internet from work;
   • 25% of World Wide Web users have incomes of more than $80,000.

   (TIME, Nov. 13, 1995, Page 121)

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