Global Internet Traffic Expected to Quadruple by 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC] Global Internet traffic is expected to quadruple between 2010 and 2015, according to data provided to Mashable by Cisco.
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By that time, nearly 3 billion people will be using the Internet — more than 40% of the world's projected population. On average, there will be more than two Internet connections for each person on Earth, driven by the proliferation of web-enabled mobile devices. Info-Overload. Is Information Overload a $650 Billion Drag on the Economy? Basex, a business research firm, came out this week with a twist on the usual year-end looking-back and looking-forward lists.
The firm picked a “problem of the year” for 2008, information overload. Basex specializes in studying how professionals and office workers — “knowledge workers” — do their work and use technology. It says the $650 billion figure is an estimate of the “cost of unnecessary interruptions” in terms of lost productivity and innovation.