The Second Life of Networks / Didier Lombard

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Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : français / French

ISBN : 978-0-9768908-1-2

Relation : The second life of Networks / Didier Lombard ; with Georges Nahon and Gabriel Sidhom / Paris : O. Jacob , impr. 2008

Résumé / Abstract : The telephone is more than one hundred thirty-years-old, the internet and the cell phone over twenty. And now, today, this ever more dense entanglement of telecommunications networks is coupled with an intertwining of human and social networks: we are on the way to becoming.... networks.Didier Lombard is both the "living memory" of French and European industry, and a visionary businessman, at the helm of one of the most active corporations in the world in a sector that is essential to growth. For the first time, he presents to a general readership his view of the technological developments that have occurred starting in the 1970s to the turn of the twenty-first century. Above all, he shares his vision of what our exchanges, our consumer behavior, and our daily lives will be like in the near future.In fact, we have already entered into the "second life" of networks.Beyond what is at stake in a key sector of the economy, to better understand the new world that is already our own