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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Proliferation of unprocessed scientific data

Proliferation of unprocessed scientific data

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Incidence

USA's space agency NASA has received from its probes over the past 30 years six trillion (6,000,000,000,000) bytes of data. Its new probes will return at least a trillion bytes a week in the 1990s.

Broader

Proliferation of information
Excellent

Aggravates

Inaccessible scientific information
Presentable
Unexplored programme data
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Unapplied scientific knowledge
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Inadequate data
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Aggravated by

Dogmatic scientific orthodoxy
Presentable

Strategy

Enhancing scientific and technological research
Presentable
Reducing amount of unprocessed scientific data
Yet to rate
Producing scientific data
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Confronting data sets
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Value

Unscientific
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Proliferation
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Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Yet to rate
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Language
English
1A4N
F1065
DOCID
11610650
D7NID
170287
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/proliferation-unprocessed-scientific-data
Last update
Dec 3, 2024