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Introduction: Digital Data and the Information Revolution

In: Sources of Information Value

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  • Joan Ricart-Costa
  • Brian Subirana
  • Josep Valor-Sabatier

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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.

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  • Joan Ricart-Costa & Brian Subirana & Josep Valor-Sabatier, 2004. "Introduction: Digital Data and the Information Revolution," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Sources of Information Value, chapter 0, pages 1-12, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51294-8_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230512948_1
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