At a time when consumers are asked to tighten their belt across the European Union, it is interesting to review how the XXI technology benefits are spread between industries and consumers.
I lived in Italy, UK, Belgium, and therefore I will limit my case studies to these three countries.
Anyway, thanks to the open internal market, most of the companies are actually multinational companies, whose practices extend beyond individual EU Member States.
But I will stretch my review across three decades, starting from when, in mid-1990s I finally surrendered and got a mobile phone (I waited for the GSM service), and then reviewing also other utilities.
Taxing the digital economy:blueprint for a virtual nation?
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009This short article (1000 words) tries to see some potential side-effects of the digital economy
Certainly, I am neither the first nor the last.
But it is a little bit disheartening to see how the discussions proceed as if reality had been frozen when the discussions began.
Probably SecondLife was the first case where a real-world entity had to sustain a virtual world currency to avoid a crisis of confidence.
And who should regulate these neo-financial virtual entities?
A short article.
As usual, with more questions than answers.
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