it era 3

    Cards (12)

    • Information overload

      Rapidly increasing rates of information production due to the computer age
    • Reasons for information overload
      • Easy duplication and transmission of information
      • Increase in communication methods
      • Growth of archives of historical information
    • Easy duplication and transmission of information

      Movie trailers / music Video trailers posted on Youtube, FB, Twitter
    • Increase in communication methods
      1. Past: Mobile phone for SMS
      2. Present: Smartphone can do both SMS via Telco Mobile apps and Emails via Computers
      3. Providers: Vibers, Messenger
    • Growth of archives of historical information
      1. Printed copies replaced by digital ones stored on cloud servers
      2. Libraries have computers and other mobile devices to access e-books, e-journals etc.
    • More than half of the world now uses the internet (up to 7% year on year)
    • Qatar and U.A.E top the internet penetration ranking with 99% of their total population using the internet
    • For 3 years in a row, Filipinos have been spending the greatest amount of time on social media with an average of four hours a day
    • More than 2/3 of the world's population now has a mobile phone, with most people now using smartphones
    • More than half of the world's web traffic now comes from mobile Phones
    • More than 60% of all mobile connections around the world are now broadband
    • More than one in five of the world's population shopped online in the past 30 days