We have the information you want, but getting it will cost you!

XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for StudentsPublished 1 September 1994

Mark Nelson

DOI10.1145/197177.197183

Citations43

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The Information Age has arrived and with it comes a daily assault of increased information; society is being held hostage by a battery of information which threatens to exceed the authors' ability to manage it.

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