The increased rate and amount of data that we acquire together with the speed with which that data expires urges us to improve the effectiveness of data acquisition. Reading 50 pages a day at 300 words per minute, we are able to read no more than 2-3 thousand books in the course of our lives. Most of us cannot even read at this not too exorbitant rate which results from school teaching methods.
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