How to measure the world's technological capacity to communicate, store, and compute information, part I: Results and scope

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 956-979

  Hilbert, Martin ^a   López, Priscila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

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