Some interesting facts

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1. The amount of information produced in the world increases by 30% every year.
2. A weekly edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England.
3. The primary cause of information overload is too much information, or the information explosion.

4. The English language contains roughly 500,000 usable words, five times more than during the time of Shakespeare.
5. Only 18% of the stories in an average newspaper are read in full.
6. There are 300,000 new book titles published every year.
7. 2/3 of managers report tension with work colleagues, and loss of job satisfaction arise because of stress associated with information overload.
8. The average American adult uses the telephone 16.7 hours a month, listens to the radio 90 hours a month, and watches TV 131 hours a month.
9. “Scholarship is as much a matter of knowing what not to read as of knowing what to read.”
10. Around the world 600 million people have access to the internet, about 30% of them in North America.
11. Email ranks second behind the telephone as the largest information flow.
12. The average metropolitan paper contains between 50 and 100 pages of print.
13. In 1990, there were 260,000 billboards in America.
14. Over 9,000 periodicals are published in the US every year.


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