From: Patrick Wilken (patrickw@cs.monash.edu.au)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 07:46:15 MDT
I had a look on the web and came across an interesting essay at:
http://www.medinfo.cam.ac.uk/miu/papers/hanka/mic97/just_in_time.html
A fascinating factoid is that if you take numbers of books deposited in the
Library of Cambridge per year as a measure it appears that knowledge has
been doubling every 33 years for THE LAST 500 YEARS. Of course this is just
one line of evidence, but it is remarkable that this relationship stands up
so strongly for so long. People can say the Internet will make all changes
much, much quicker, but its interesting despite lots of other high tech
changes over the last half millenium this particular rate of increase has
stayed so constant.
ciao, patrick
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Patrick Wilken
Editor: PSYCHE: An International Journal of Research on Consciousness
Board Member: The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
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