Networked information at the barricades : France and the US confronting the « grand public »

This paper presents some of the author's considerations on technological revolution. He compares these changes to some others in the past, which already had consequences on commercial market and users'habits. The incredible rapidity of Internet evolutions is at the core of his considerations. How can we think the future of networked information ? Which kind of products will be presented on the network ? How will change the ways of creating, producing, consulting the data offered on Internet ? Which are the possibilities, but also the negative effects of multimedia ? What will become hypertext ? How the publishers will use its capacities ? Scientists, publishers, librarians have to stay in the running if they don't want to see the network be dominated by entertainment industry.
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