Information, Internet, Economy and Society

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Information, Internet, Economy and Society

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Yahoo recently appointed Scott Thompson as its new CEO, seeking to restore its lost luster and profitability for its shareholders. The former PayPal CEO (as his predecessor Carol Bratz already knew) will try to take advantage of the huge amount of data generated by this aging Internet giant to restore some of its lost luster, and I would like to take Yahoo, a company I have a certain affection for, as a starting point to reflect on the importance of information and the Internet in the underlying currents that are drastically transforming our world.


After all, many of the companies that are having brazil telegram users mobile phone number list the greatest influence (I'm thinking, of course, of Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) have business models built around the importance of information. The importance of having lots of information, and very well organized. We live in a world that not only generates more and more information (currently it is estimated that the information generated by humanity doubles every 18-24 months), but in which this information is also increasingly important, in companies, in financial markets, in the control of state budgets, in our personal lives...

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At the birth of the Internet, there was a lot of talk about how it would radically transform the world we live in (who doesn’t remember the expression “The global village”) and, curiously, now that we have this change upon us (impossible to separate the Arab Spring, global economic upheavals or the social and professional transformation in which youth are immersed from the Internet) we hardly talk about it. The Internet, now with the latest name we have given it “The Cloud” (a name, by the way, much more metaphorical, organic and attractive) is upon us like an enormous revolution in the history of humanity transforming (or crushing) ways of thinking (look at a twenty-year-old facing bureaucracy and you will understand what I mean), companies (countless), states (Arab Spring, what China has left to do), geopolitics (where it competes in importance with energy resources), etc…
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