Editing Information Age (section)

===Library expansion and Moore's law===
Library expansion was calculated in 1945 by [[Fremont Rider]] to double in capacity every 16 years where sufficient space made available.<ref name="The Scholar">{{Cite book|last=Rider|first=Fredmont|title=The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library|date=1944|publisher=Hadham Press|location=New York City}}</ref> He advocated replacing bulky, decaying printed works with [[Miniaturization|miniaturized]] [[microform]] [[Analog photography|analog photographs]], which could be duplicated on-demand for library patrons and other institutions.

Rider did not foresee, however, the [[Digital electronics|digital technology]] that would follow decades later to replace [[Analog Devices|analog]] microform with [[digital imaging]], [[Digital Storage|storage]], and [[Transmission medium|transmission media]], whereby vast increases in the rapidity of information growth would be made possible through [[Automation|automated]], potentially-[[Lossless compression|lossless]] digital technologies. Accordingly, [[Moore's law]], formulated around 1965, would calculate that the [[Transistor count|number of transistors]] in a dense [[integrated circuit]] doubles approximately every two years.<ref name="news.cnet.com">{{cite web |url=http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-984051.html |title=Moore's Law to roll on for another decade |quote=Moore also affirmed he never said transistor count would double every 18 months, as is commonly said. Initially, he said transistors on a chip would double every year. He then recalibrated it to every two years in 1975. David House, an Intel executive at the time, noted that the changes would cause computer performance to double every 18 months. |access-date=2011-11-27 |archive-date=2015-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709195410/http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-984051.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1" />

By the early 1980s, along with improvements in [[computing power]], the proliferation of the smaller and less expensive personal computers allowed for immediate [[access to information]] and the ability to [[Information sharing|share]] and [[Information retrieval|store]] it. Connectivity between computers within organizations enabled access to greater amounts of information.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}