Introduction: Digital Data and the Information Revolution

Joan Ricart-Costa, Brian Subirana and Josep Valor-Sabatier

Chapter Chapter 1 in Sources of Information Value, 2004, pp 1-12 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Only someone recently roused from a 25-year sleep can be unaware of the ways that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have reshaped our daily routines. To be sure, in the early 1980s there were telephones, television, newspapers, facsimile machines and even computers capable of calculating pi to hundreds of digits past the decimal point. But local and wide area networks did not exist, there were no online research libraries like Nexus or Lexus from which you could retrieve a magazine article or a law opinion, dot.coms had yet to arrive (and depart), and a global computer network called the World Wide Web hadn’t been devised – or even considered possible. One could not buy or sell anything from anywhere anytime.

Keywords: Wide Area Network; Local Loop; Information Revolution; Internet Access Provider; Ordinary Personal Computer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230512948_1

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