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Date   Article Count       Increase during year   % Increase during year   Average increase per day of year  2001-12-31  19,700 19,700 ∞ 54 2002-12-31 96,500 76,800 390% 210 2003-12-31 188,800 92,300 96% 253 2004-12-31 438,500 249,700 132% 682 2005-12-31 895,000 456,500 104% 1251 2006-12-31 1,560,000 665,000 74% 1822 2007-12-31 2,153,000 593,000 38% 1625 2008-12-31 2,679,000 526,000 24% 1437 2009-10-15 3,062,127 [a]383,127    --    ~1330[a][b]

Marshall McLuhan

Moore's Law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware, in which the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years.[1]. Rather than being a naturally-occurring "law" that cannot be controlled, however, Moore's Law is effectively a business practice in which the advancement of transistor counts occurs at a fixed rate.[2] [see image] The capabilities of many digital electronic devices are strongly linked to Moore's law: processing speed, memory capacity, sensors and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras.[3] All of these are improving at (roughly) exponential rates as well.[4] This has dramatically increased the usefulness of digital electronics in nearly every segment of the world economy.[5][6] Moore's law precisely describes a driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The trend has continued for more than half a century and is not expected to stop until 2015 or even later.[7] The law is named for Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore, who introduced it in a 1965 paper.[8][9][10] It has since been used in the semiconductor industry to guide long term planning and to set targets for research and development.[11]

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism (i.e., an organism that has both artificial and natural systems).

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves.

VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. It is often considered the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool.[1] VisiCalc sold over 700,000 copies in six years.[2]

Six degrees of separation (also referred to as the "Human Web") refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they know, then everyone is at most six steps away from any other person on Earth. It was popularised by a play written by John Guare.

John Sculley

NeXT Computer

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. To count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance.

An ovoo (Mongolian: овоо, heap) is a type of shamanistic cairn found in Mongolia, usually made from rocks or from wood