An essay in information retrieval or the birth of a myth

A frequently quoted and still current myth on the ill effects of the so-called information explosion is analyzed. Five years and 250,000 dollars were allegedly spent in the United States to duplicate a result published in the Soviet Union in 1950. Not only does this myth rest on a comedy of errors, but the trivial results in question were surprisingly well known to all specialists most concerned, in at least one instance as early as 1937

The economic impact of the information sector in Singapore

10.1007/BF00418970Economics of Planning23151-7