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The Archives and the Compression Generation

The Archives and the Compression Generation Abstract IF THERE is a single phenomenon that characterizes today's society, it is the explosion of information in our lives. The global village created by television (TV) will seem like a collection of primitive huts compared with the emerging world of fiberoptic highways, data compression, hypertext, and virtual reality. Soon palm-sized personal computers will interact with your telephone and TV monitor to provide instant access to an inexhaustible array of data. These breathtaking changes in communications technologies are a few years away but one thing is already clear: we will be capable of producing information much faster than we are capable of absorbing it. Our parents and grandparents who lived through the 1930s were known as the Depression Generation because that was the event that shaped them and their perceptions of the world. We in the late-late 20th century could be called the "Compression Generation." The speed and quantity of our References 1. Arndt KA. Information excess in medicine: overview, relevance to dermatology, and strategies for coping . Arch Dermatol. 1992;128:1249-1256.Crossref 2. Pearson RW. Archives of Dermatology: the first hundred years . Arch Dermatol. 1982;118;699-700.Crossref 3. Dubin D, Häfner AW, Arndt KA. Citation classics in clinical dermatologic journals: citation analysis, biomedical journals, and landmark articles, 1945-1990 . Arch Dermatol. In press. 4. Springer M. Making medical journals more readable . Arch Intern Med. 1993; 153:19.Crossref http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Dermatology American Medical Association

The Archives and the Compression Generation

Archives of Dermatology , Volume 129 (8) – Aug 1, 1993

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0003-987X
eISSN
1538-3652
DOI
10.1001/archderm.1993.01680290096015
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Abstract

Abstract IF THERE is a single phenomenon that characterizes today's society, it is the explosion of information in our lives. The global village created by television (TV) will seem like a collection of primitive huts compared with the emerging world of fiberoptic highways, data compression, hypertext, and virtual reality. Soon palm-sized personal computers will interact with your telephone and TV monitor to provide instant access to an inexhaustible array of data. These breathtaking changes in communications technologies are a few years away but one thing is already clear: we will be capable of producing information much faster than we are capable of absorbing it. Our parents and grandparents who lived through the 1930s were known as the Depression Generation because that was the event that shaped them and their perceptions of the world. We in the late-late 20th century could be called the "Compression Generation." The speed and quantity of our References 1. Arndt KA. Information excess in medicine: overview, relevance to dermatology, and strategies for coping . Arch Dermatol. 1992;128:1249-1256.Crossref 2. Pearson RW. Archives of Dermatology: the first hundred years . Arch Dermatol. 1982;118;699-700.Crossref 3. Dubin D, Häfner AW, Arndt KA. Citation classics in clinical dermatologic journals: citation analysis, biomedical journals, and landmark articles, 1945-1990 . Arch Dermatol. In press. 4. Springer M. Making medical journals more readable . Arch Intern Med. 1993; 153:19.Crossref

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Archives of DermatologyAmerican Medical Association

Published: Aug 1, 1993

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