[3] The earliest known use of the phrase was in a speech about television by NBC president Pat Weaver at the Institute of Practitioners of Advertising in London on September 27, 1955.
The speech was rebroadcast on radio station WSUI in Iowa City and excerpted in the Daily Iowan newspaper two months later.
[7] Such approaches aim to organize the information, synthesizing, categorizing and systematizing in order to be more usable and easier to search.
A new metric that is being used in an attempt to characterize the growth in person-specific information, is the disk storage per person (DSP), which is measured in megabytes/person (where megabytes is 106 bytes and is abbreviated MB).
The GDSP metric is a crude measure of how much disk storage could possibly be used to collect person-specific data on the world population.
[12] Even though the abundance of information can be beneficial in several levels, some problems may be of concern such as privacy, legal and ethical guidelines, filtering and data accuracy.
With so much information available, the doctors will need to be able to identify patterns and select important data for the diagnosis of the patient.
[5] Another point to take into account is the legal and ethical guidelines, which relates to who will be the owner of the data and how frequently he/she is obliged to the release this and for how long.
The reduction of costs according to the author, could be done by associations, which should assess which information was relevant and gather it in a more organized fashion.