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The 21st Century: the Emergence of Information

  • Introduction
    • The world is changing
    • Future changes
    • An angry world
    • A world experiencing a jump to a new level
    • A new New world
    • The questions
    • Waiting
    • Bibliography
  • The nature of information
    • Why?
    • Information
    • Be a informivore
    • The transitions
    • Complexity
    • Dematerialization
    • Big Data
    • Information = energy
    • Information as a real control tool
    • Information as a decision making tool
    • Information as a political tool
    • Questions
    • Bibliography
  • A digital world
    • Why ?
    • The digital society
    • Logical intelligences
    • The blackout
    • The smart approach
    • Long Data
    • Consumer interactivity
    • The transitions
    • Digital empires
    • Search engines
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • GAFA
    • Questions
    • Bibliography
  • The Internet
    • Why ?
    • A new Internet
    • The evolution
    • The role of the Internet
    • The three stages of development
    • The passages
    • The evolution of content
    • The impact of the Internet
    • The Internet 2
    • The Contenders
    • The four Webs
    • A smart generation
    • The digital empires
    • After the Cloud
    • The surveillance technologies
    • The Internet of Things
    • The robots
    • The space
    • The questions
    • Bibliography
  • Communications
    • Citizens and communications
    • How communication operates
    • Language
    • An economic media model
    • Reading images on screen
    • The attention economy
    • Communications in the past
    • Communications in the era of a knowledge-based society
    • The transitions
    • Mobile communications
    • The 3D interface
    • The questions
    • Bibliography
  • A culture of images-on-screens
    • Why ?
    • The cultures of writing and of the screen-image
    • The civilization of the image
    • From writing to images-on-screen and 3D
    • The multiplication of images-on-screens
    • The TV screen
    • The computer screen
    • The mobile devices screen
    • New media-based writing
    • Schematic
    • Questions
    • Bibliography
  • A knowledge-based society
    • Why?
    • A society built with information
    • What is our future, with Google ?
    • The next Masters of the World
    • The transitions
    • The forces of change and resistance
    • The culture
    • The events and developments that caused the rupture
    • The three main structures of society
    • The cycles
    • The five crises
    • The architectures
    • Crises arranged like a game of dominoes
    • The gears and cogs
    • The current economic model
    • The Net Economy
    • An economy based on security ?
    • The civil society
    • An economic model of social proximity
    • Questions
    • Bibliography
  • Citizens in a digital world
    • Why ?
    • A solitary being
    • Human beings are mutating
    • Immigrants and natives
    • The transitions
    • Digital identity
    • Citizens speaking out
    • A Soft Revolution
    • Smart skills
    • Social networks
    • The questions
    • Bibliography
  • Smart cities
    • Why ?
    • Intelligent = smart
    • The smart city
    • The smart home
    • The current level of trust
    • The new connectivity areas
    • Digital citizenship
    • Applications
    • Narrowcasting
    • Speaking out
    • New tools
    • Participatory democracy
    • Bibliography
  • A new model for the knowledge society
    • Why ?
    • Seeking well-being
    • Interpreting the model
    • Societal re-organisation
    • Preparing for the future
    • Previously-established conceptual frameworks
    • Bibliography

GAFA

Michel Cartier2020-09-08T13:28:24-04:00

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More to read in this chapter:

  • Why ?
  • The digital society
  • Logical intelligences
  • The blackout
  • The smart approach
  • Long Data
  • Consumer interactivity
  • The transitions
  • Digital empires
  • Search engines
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • GAFA
  • Questions
  • Bibliography

To my grandchildren, who will have
to understand and live in this new society :

Alexis, Catherine, Colin,
Johan, Laurent, Marion,
Marc-Antoine, Mathieu,
Norah and Virginie

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