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OCR: 3-30 DOCUMENTS Of RKSHE ETS A N D DATABASES Databases ometime in the middle i this century our industrial society began to BNOAB into ar information society The we live has changed in many ways. We more frequently interact with information, we enter careers connected to information management we increasingly attach cash value to information we tend depend on information and we are becoming aware of the potential problems that can occur when information is misused Databases The Information Age is fueled by an explosion i data that is collected and generated by individuals, corp orations, and g overn ment agencies Some experts estimate that the amount information doubles ev ery year. This information stored in an uncountable number of datab: ases, most of them co mputerized In the course of ...