Editing Information Age (section)

===Information transmission===
The world's technological capacity to receive information through one-way [[Broadcasting (networking)|broadcast networks]] was 432 [[exabyte]]s of (optimally [[Data compression|compressed]]) information in 1986; 715 (optimally compressed) exabytes in 1993; 1.2 (optimally compressed) [[zettabytes]] in 2000; and 1.9 zettabytes in 2007, the information equivalent of 174 newspapers per person per day.<ref name="HilbertLopez2011"/>

The world's effective capacity to [[Exchange of information|exchange information]] through [[Two-way communication|two-way]] [[Telecommunications network]]s was 281 [[petabytes]] of (optimally compressed) information in 1986; 471 petabytes in 1993; 2.2 (optimally compressed) exabytes in 2000; and 65 (optimally compressed) exabytes in 2007, the information equivalent of six newspapers per person per day.<ref name="HilbertLopez2011" /> In the 1990s, the spread of the Internet caused a sudden leap in access to and ability to share information in businesses and homes globally. A computer that cost $3000 in 1997 would cost $2000 two years later and $1000 the following year, due to the rapid advancement of technology.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}