The revolution of information and communication technologies: social, economic and cultural consequences

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the consequences of the appearing and use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), today and in the near future. It calls into question what are the more profound effects and irreversible changes caused by the incorporation of such technology. Thus, we have identified the dominant processes in our present reality, increasingly based on the logic of networks, which became the main organization form of the human activities. Also, social, economic and cultural influences are fundamental issues to be considered when studying elements with such penetration and that close to the forms of power. Finally, we discuss access to ICTs, which, while connecting people from all over the world, make those already excluded from access to technologies even more disconnected people. One of the goals here is to understand how this exclusion is done in this space each time less physical.