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It has been said that when children born today reach their eightieth birthdays, 97 percent of all knowledge will have been produced during their lifetime. Compare this to the sixteenth century: the greatest total of knowledge then -- all one could acquire in a lifetime -- was about what is now contained in one weekday issue of The New York Times. Anyone with a computer, a phone line, and a modem has access, in one evening, to more information than both his or her parents had in an entire lifetime. A new learner fortunate enough to have a satellite dish can access more information in one evening than all his or her forebearers in history.
