Latest in: World Info Capacity

  Abeliansky, A. L., & Hilbert, M. (2016). Digital technology and international trade: Is it the quantity of subscriptions or the quality of data speed that matters? Telecommunications Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2016.11.001   Highlights Both telecommunication subscriptions and...

Hilbert, M. (2016). The bad news is that the digital access divide is here to stay: Domestically installed bandwidths among 172 countries for 1986–2014. Telecommunications Policy; Vol 40, issue 6, 567-581.   Highlights • The digital...

Gillings, M. R., Hilbert, M., & Kemp, D. J. (2016). Information in the Biosphere: Biological and Digital Worlds. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31(3), 180–189.  ABSTRACT: Evolution has transformed life through key innovations in information storage...

  Based on updated data from our global information capacity inventories, the London based outlet SciDev.Net (Science & technology for global development) has elaborated an interactive animation that allows users to explore the evolution of the...

Hilbert, M. (2015). A review of large-scale “how much information” inventories: variations, achievements and challenges. Information Research, 20(4). Open access at: http://www.informationr.net/ir/20-4/paper688.html   ABSTRACT Introduction. Pressed by the exploding number and increasing social importance of digital...

Martin Hilbert on the world’s information capacity April 22, 2014  |  Luke Muehlhauser  |  Conversations        ...Read More

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology ABSTRACT: Technological change in the digital age is a combination of both more and better technology. This work quantifies how much of the technologically-mediated information and communication...