•Every two or three years, the knowledge base doubles.

•Every day, 7,000 scientific and technical articles are published

•Satellites orbiting the globe send enough data to fill 19 million volumes in the Library of Congress – every two weeks

•High school graduates have been exposed to more information than grandparents were in a lifetime.

•There will be as much change in the next three decades as there was in the last three centuries.

1977: 111 hosts on Internet1981: 213 hosts1983: 562 hosts1984: 1,000 hosts1986: 5,000 hosts1987: 10,000 hosts1989: 100,000 hosts1992: 1,000,000 hosts2001: 150 – 175 million hosts2002: over 200 million hostsBy 2010, about 80% of the planet will be on the Internet

Internet Growth Trends

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