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The promise of a huge high-reliability market was built around a myth. Understanding the true potential size of the high-reliability market requires an understanding of the complex interplay between the growth of the Internet and the digital economy s effect on electricity demand. Early analyses of these issues created a myth that raised false expectations in the market. 

With the exponential growth of the Internet, there was a dramatic increase in the use of self-help groups. 

Another way to measure the growth of the Internet is by the increase in the number of Internet protocol (IP) addresses. Devices connected to the Internet are assigned an IP address. The current common form is an IP version 4 address, with 4 billion possible addresses. Because of growth in the number of host computers, routers, and users as well as inefficiencies in how IP addresses were first allocated, some industry analysts estimate all available IPv4 addresses will be allocated sometime in 2005. The number of next generation IPv6 addresses is estimated to be greater than 35 trillion,... 

Nevertheless, regulatory as well as technical variables may become an important factor that hinders future growth of the Internet economy. Despite a high level of efficiency enabled by technologies, free markets arc sometimes unable to produce efficient results when ... 

Connectivity was a strong enabler. With the growth of the Internet, friction was taken out of the supply chain. New processes evolved to better serve business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) relationships. In this period, millions of dollars were spent on B2B connectivity, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and e-commerce initiatives. Most were hastily implemented. These tipping points are shown in Figure 1.6. 

The required hazardous material information is primarily being provided to the fire departments as printed material presently but this is rapidly changing. Generic databases containing thousands of Material Safety Data Sheets are now available on optical disks (CD-ROMs) which provide encyclopedic amounts of data. SmaU computers have also developed the capabihty of inexpensively placing information on these disks so that locaUy specific irrformation can be added. The rapid growth of the Internet and the expansion of high speed data access also makes it feasible to obtain MSDS... 

The number of periodic systems that have been proposed probably exceeds 1,000, and are certainly more than the 700 that were carefully analyzed by Edward Mazurs in his classic book of 1974. The rapid proliferation and growth of the Internet and new means of representing data and information on the elements has ako fueled the development of what may be called the periodic table industry There are now dozens of websites devoted to all aspects of the periodic table, from its history to etymological derivations of the names of elements and tabulations of chemical and physical data. ... 

The growth of the Internet has led to the creation of many successful companies that are constantly leading the way in terms of innovative technologies and therefore new jobs. Among these are many companies originally founded in the United States that have since expanded worldwide, including Apple, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, and Yahoo. 

Telecommimications. Optical telecommunication devices send coded information from one location to another through optical fibers. The astonishing growth of the Internet and the ever-in-creasing demands for more information delivered faster with more efficiency have spurred the development of optical transmission networks. There are optical networks laid underneath the Earth s vast oceans as well as extensive ground-based systems connecting continental communication systems. 

The growth of the Internet, particularly the World Wide Web, has also increased the amount of information available for statistical and probability research. This information comes both in the form of raw data and in documented analysis. As of the end of December, 2009, there were more than 1.8 billion Internet users, nearly 27 percent of the world s population. As Internet access and use becomes more widespread, the amount of information generated by users will continue to increase. This increase will lead to new possibilities for statistical analysis based on usage and traffic patterns as well as the content contrihuted by users. 

There is an increasing need for professionals with a knowledge of probability and statistics. The growth of the Internet has led to a rapid rise in the amount of information available, both in professional and in private contexts. This growth has created new opportunities for the sharing of knowledge. However, much of the information being shared has not been filtered or evaluated. Statistics, in particular, can be fabricated easily and often are disseminated without... 

Fig. 7.1 Histoiy and growth of the Internet. Data extracted from Internet world stats, 2013...

With the recent growth of the Internet and WWW, more easy and convenient access methods are available. The WWW access to STN (STN Easy) is an example of this. Up to now it does not have the flexibility and the power of the classic retrieval language and also it is not possible to access all STN databases this way. But it is sufficient for most easy requests. The future will bring further development in this field, especially when a safe method for electronic cash and money exchange on the WWW becomes common, the database providers will take this opportunity to open their market to casual users. 

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