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(via poptech)
Source: onearth
The story the timeline tells is a fascinating one: of how, in a multitude of steps, our civilization has systematized more and more areas of knowledge—collected the data associated with them, and gradually made them amenable to automation.
(via Stephen Wolfram Blog : Advance of the Data Civilization: A Timeline)
Source: blog.stephenwolfram.com
Consumer internet traffic: Data guzzlers | The Economist
Future predictions until 2015.
Source: economist.com



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