The era of "information appliances" - electronic gizmos designed to tap into the Internet, often for specialized transactions - is approaching, and with it the end of the PC as the primary tool for online access.
So what do those events in the 1930s, which unfolded when bankers, politicians and investors knew so much less about the economy, have to do with our world, the age of the Internet, the era of unlimited access to information and advanced economic theories?
The era of basic POI information is over.
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Top-down assembly line processing is a remnant from the rusty industrial age, and no longer works in the fluid, spreadable hoodoo environments of the information era.
The new era emerges from the build-out of the wireless information highway and low-cost high-performance computing engines.
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Companies need to wake up to the reality that information governance is more important in the era of Big Data than it was beforehand.
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One is the spectacular, newly built environments that house the highly specialized advanced economic sectors of our global information era, and the associated spaces for luxury consumption (homes, shops and restaurants).
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The digital era requires even more resources to satisfy the information needs of voracious investors.
One key principle of this era is that IT must put information in the hands of users and provide them with the tools to make use of it and capture and propagate what they have learned.
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Their advent is driving a profound debate over the definition of privacy in an era when most people now carry information-transmitting devices with them all the time.
In the case of South Africa, another aspect to take into account is that women organizations, who actively participated in putting an end to the apartheid era, may wrongly perceive the demand for information access as an act of opposition to a government they strived to put in power.
Could a modern president leave Washington DC for weeks on end, especially if made to operate under the information constraints of the Depression era?
The larger challenge in the era of social media then is producing news and information at a scale and cost that matches what marketers are willing to pay.
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In an era defined by the rapid flow of commerce and information, it is our free market tradition, our openness, fortified by our commitment to basic security for our citizens, that offers the best chance of prosperity that is both strong and shared.
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The Center in particular sharply rejects the contention made by the opponents of this facility that, in the current era of glasnost and improving East-West relations, the vastly improved capability to beam accurate information into the Central Asian and other portions of the USSR, Eastern Europe and elsewhere is no longer needed.
" He predicted that the era of drug companies and researchers "routinely withholding important information about clinical trials is coming to an end.
In the WikiLeaks era, where no communication can be considered secure, corporate leaders on the cusp of announcing market moving information have a need to be increasingly vigilant and ensure that sensitive information remains protected.
In an era where media and ICT are becoming the primary means of delivering information and knowledge, it is more than ever necessary to provide all citizens, especially youth, with the skills and abilities to critically analyze, use and create information.
And in an era when companies hold a host of personal information, the fact remains an ambulance can still respond to an emergency call, ferry a patient to hospital but doctors will still have little knowledge of their medical history.
The technologies that have unlocked this abundance are the familiar fruits of our era: better materials engineering, sensors, controls, and information-related systems that radically improve all operations.
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The reason for this is simple: we now live in an era of incredible access to information.
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In the Big Data era, where companies are able to quickly make sense of larger quantities of data than ever, information is finally recognized as a critical business asset.
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Ever since the pre-Internet era of the 1970s, authoritarian regimes have sought to use the U.N. to establish an "information world order" based on government control, not open flows of information.
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