Facets and Challenges of the Information Technology Evolution

The recent dramatic information technology evolution has brought major modifications in the way information is handled with new techniques and new tools. This paper will question a few clichés and deals with a number of newly resulting problems and challenges, especially ethical, legal and educational ones.

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Abstract from a chapter of Information & On-line data in Astronomy
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Daniel Egret & Miguel A. Albrecht (Editors)