The concept of information half-life, as coined by Burton & Kebler (Burton & Kebler, 1960), has its origins in the physical sciences. Originally used to describe unstable atoms, half-life was defined as the time it takes for a substance undergoing decay to decrease by half (Half-life). When applied to information, half-life is defined as the time it takes for information to lose half of its value. For the purposes of GIAC Enterprises,