1994: the Thery report on "information highways"
The year is 1994. The world was beginning to whisper the word Internet, Al Gore was dreaming of “global communications networks” and “participatory democracy”, and American giants like Yahoo, eBay and Amazon were preparing to revolutionize our daily lives. Meanwhile, in France, the Théry Report (30 years after the publication of the Théry Report on information highways), a masterpiece of visionary analysis commissioned by Édouard Balladur, is being published. In this report, we learn with confidence that the Internet is nothing more than a “precursor...
Many debates on the opposition between a new and an old world. Whether we are talking about business, companies, society or politics, the opposition...