[xtm-wg] Topic Maps are gonna need steroids

[Jack Park <jackpark@verticalnet.com>]

>From this web page:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/10/001018214317.htm
Consider these quotes:

* The directly accessible "surface" Web consists of about 2.5 billion
documents and is growing at a rate of 7.3 million pages per day.

* Counting the "surface" Web with the "deep" Web of connected databases,
intranet sites and dynamic pages, there are about 550 billion documents, and
95 percent is publicly accessible.

* Fifty percent of all Internet users are native English speakers, while
English language Web sites account for about 78 percent of all Web sites,
and 96 percent of E-commerce Web sites.

* A white-collar worker receives about 40 e-mail messages daily at the
office.

* Ninety percent of the world's e-mailboxes were found in the United States
in 1984, but that dropped to 59 percent by the end of 1999. E-mail
production accounts for about 500 times as much information as Web page
production each year.

* Worldwide production of books increased by 2 percent in the last year.

* Production of newspapers in the last year decreased by 2 percent.

* The United States produces 35 percent of all print material, 40 percent of
the images and more than half of the digitally stored material.




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