The Dynamic Aspects of Information Flow within a Society

The information generators and receptors within a society and their connecting links constitute a complex network whose growth pattern must be understood in order to project future data communications needs. To attack this problem a model of society was constructed and categorized according to types of economic activity. Within each division of economic activity were individual units having similar inputs, outputs, and internal operating patterns. The nodal points of this framework were businesses, households, educational institutions, and governments tied together by linking information flows. The volume of all types of communications media, together with the growth patterns in the divisions of economic activity, can provide indications of future data communications parameters.