From Mindjet:
From Cartography to Card Catalogs [Infographic]
“In today’s information age, we enjoy all but instant digital access to the world’s collected knowledge. Consider:
• Wikipedia contains more than 19 million articles in some 270 languages.
• Google aims to catalog the world’s supply of printed knowledge by scanning all of the estimated 130 million books published in modern history.
• And the world wide web itself contains more than 7 billion pages.
But unfiltered access to unlimited sources is useless if you can’t find what you need. The development of sophisticated systems of organization—helping us retrieve the one piece of information we need from the endless expanse of data—is one of humanity’s most significant accomplishments.”
And who did that?
Stephen
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Thanks for sharing this infographic. But especially relevant, I htink, is the statement “…unfiltered access to unlimited sources is useless if you can’t find what you need.” So true.
Good one. “unfiltered access to unlimited sources is useless if you can’t find what you need”. Google any way is boasting of its search capability, why then worry?