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As a result, “more than a thousand companies are now involved in a digital information value chain that harvests data from any
online
activity and delivers targeted content to
online
or mobile users within roughly 36 seconds of their entry into the digital realm.”
She also notes that “a rich ecosystem of privacy-friendly
online
services is starting to be up and running.”
The EU has taken the lead in responding, thanks to its new privacy standards and proposed greater taxation of Facebook and other peddlers of
online
personal data.
Quintarelli, Spiekermann, and their fellow champions of
online
ethics offer us a practical path to an Internet that is transparent, fair, democratic, and respectful of personal rights.
The venerable Chennai newspaper The Hindu failed for the first time in 178 years to bring out a print edition, because its employees couldn’t get to work (though it gamely produced an
online
issue).
But devices can be put in a container and shipped around the world, while recipes, blueprints, and how-to manuals can be posted online, putting them just a few clicks away.
As more devices, ranging from automobiles to pacemakers, are placed online, malicious hackers could turn the “Internet of Things” (IOT) into “the weaponization of everything.”
But we must also invest capital in our workforce, in building up companies seriously capable of challenging the titans of the American entertainment business, as well as companies like Microsoft and Netscape, who currently have such an iron grip on new and
online
media.
If investors understand that
online
distribution is revolutionizing the retail sector, isolating the sector’s CEOs from financial markets would just push more resources into a deteriorating, shrinking business model.
Last month, Huang Qi, an Internet entrepreneur arrested for posting articles criticizing the Communist Party, and four young intellectuals who made up the "New Youth Study Group" to hold
online
discussions about political reform, were sentenced to long prison terms.
But this debate misses a crucial point: the hypermarket model is itself under serious threat everywhere from
online
shopping.
They watched in horror as Amazon, en route to becoming the world’s largest
online
retailer, pushed the bookstore chain Borders into bankruptcy, and have wondered if they will be next.
Meanwhile, its British counterpart, Tesco, is shifting away from the large hypermarket format and investing heavily in
online
systems.
The challenge is that the rise of
online
shopping will increase competitive pressure, regardless of whether big foreign retailers enter the market.
While Indians have traditionally been wary of buying online, owing to their distrust of digital security, in recent years the urban middle class has become increasingly accustomed to using the Internet to purchase airline tickets, reserve hotel rooms, and order books.
As rising affluence and falling technology prices make
online
shopping accessible to a growing pool of customers, more products will follow.
We know from international experience that
online
shopping undermines hypermarkets more than neighborhood stores, which often offer home delivery, credit, and the reassuring familiarity of personal relationships.
This can and must change, but it requires a grassroots movement that uses blogs,
online
magazines and newspapers, book clubs and meet-up clubs, and anything else that might work to promote educational opportunities to develop critical-thinking skills.
The goal is to incentivize employment, and to create an
online
system that is easier to use.
Two million activists demanded through an
online
petition that governments shift to 100% clean energy.
For example, it is working to ban companies from refusing
online
sales (except for copyright reasons) or setting different prices on the basis of a customer’s home country.
In recent years, much attention has been devoted to “fake news” – outright disinformation that spreads widely, often through social media or other
online
platforms.
The blessings of the Internet are many, but one casualty of our segmentation into
online
subcultures is the loss of a common focal point.
This does not mean merely permitting comments on an article that is published online; it means creating more opportunities for citizens to document, record, curate, and edit news from their own communities.
And its outcome seems preordained; in a leaked position paper, Oettinger proposes a powerful new EU regulator to rein in
online
platforms.
An innovative IAEA e-learning tool, the Virtual University for Cancer Control (VUCCnet), is being developed in Africa to provide expert training
online
to health professionals, so that they do not have to take costly trips abroad.
The digitalization that Gates is describing should not be confused with the digitization process that created
online
trading systems and partly enabled the 2008 financial crisis.
And from Albania to Kyrgyzstan, e-government systems are allowing more people to connect with critical services through
online
and electronic portals.
Can they manage the flow of information and ideas through the blogosphere as
online
activists open yet another front in their battle for free information?
They spent years building huge audiences by reorganizing the
online
world around a set of applications that were more personalized, convenient, and easier to use than their predecessors.
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