Great question. I'm sorry that I didn't immediately find the internet map showing the transfer of giga- and tera- bytes of data. I've seen such before, such info maps certainly exist.
But it's not really clear that there has been really that significant an increase in "information"; certainly not such an increase in the "value of information". How to estimate an info flow from a data flow? I don't know -- it's perhaps the difference between a video phone (with voice AND pictures), versus just a voice. Voice alone has 90% of the info, but is just 5-10% of the total voice+picture data, depending on the digital picture size/quality etc. But what I find particularly noteworty is this fantastic map of internet relationships: http://www.orgnet.com/netindustry.html discussed elsewhere as: A jiggly power chart shows who really rules your world Valdis Krebs' twitching girdle of media alliances ---- I think that it is now computationally possible to have economic models displayed in such an interactive fashion, and allow a huge range of "playing with" to learn about different interactions. There may even be games like this, perhaps "Sim City" or something (I haven't played it). But it would be cool for an economics department to have something available for users to look at, learn from, and make predictions with. Does anybody know of any work being done in this vein? Tom Grey > -----Original Message----- > From: Jacob W Braestrup [mailto:jacob@;braestrup.dk] > Sent: 13 November, 2002 10:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Increase in the flow of communication since 1970 > > > Dear Armchairs > > I am trying to graphically illustrate the increase in the flow of > information since 1970. > > Has anybody got any ideas - that is data - showing how "the flow of > communication" has increased in that period??? > > any suggestions and ideas are welcome > > Sincerely > > Jacob Braestrup > Danish Taxpayers Association >
