Technology, of increasing importance in the economic sphere, has not only brought progress, but it has also created risks for traditional economic models and for society in
general. It represents great advances, but it also increases inequality, particularly in so-called poor countries (“digital divide”), and also between the North and the South (dependence linked to intellectual property, cultural homogenisation,
the brain drain), and it represents a dramatic destructuring of family economy.
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PUBLICATION DATE: 29 October 2005