Just five years later, in 2007, that gap has nearly doubled, and people in richer countries have 15 times more information carrying capacity.
With every network generation, the technology becomes more efficient at carrying information.
At the so-called Green Line dividing Cyprus from Turkish-administered Northern Cyprus, customs officials said they weren't searching people walking across the border unless they had information they were carrying large sums of currency.
Before long, catalogs-previously just lists of items to be sold-began carrying new information: condition, provenance, even price estimates.
This case is important because the ruling would appear to apply to any traveler that is carrying digital information across a border checkpoint.
Along with the house went birth certificates, bank records, computers carrying vital information for the Kristoff's Steak Escape Restaurant, one of which likely went up in flames with the rest of the river walk.
And that whole system reminds us so much of a situation in which humans use names that we were really curious to see whether these animals really do recognize the actual shape of that whistle as carrying the information of identity.
Physically, the DNA carrying all that information is no bigger than a speck of dust.
The device is them connected to a battery and computer which can measure and gather information about the pain-carrying nerves signalling the brain.
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And don't think their salespeople aren't well-primed for buyers who walk smugly into a dealership carrying Internet-generated pricing information.
Mentioned above, the Communications Decency Act is legislation that Congress passed to protect the free flow of information online by stating that websites could not be sued for carrying defamatory material.
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And since arrestees already have to tell police their names and give them their fingerprints and any identifying documents they're carrying, they have no right to hide genetic information that could help solve cold cases, they say.
Lawyers acting for Mr Ryder said that in the light of the forecast, and other information available to the council, the risks involved in not carrying out further gritting on the evening of 8 December - the day before the accident - were "too great".
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The council said it had been concentrating on carrying out essential safety work until it had received further detailed information.
According to the Centre for High North Logistics, an Arctic-focused information center based in Kirkenes, Norway, 46 vessels used the NSR in 2012, carrying about 1.26 million tons of cargo.
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