| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.techfore.2003.11.001
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| The digital economy: Where do we stand? |
| Ayres RU; Williams E
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| 发表日期 | 2004
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| 出处 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change 71 (4): 315-339
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| 出版年 | 2004
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | The rapid transition towards a "digital economy" was enabled by a converging set of innovations. Computing saw the development of the semiconductor transistor, integrated circuit, personal computers (PCs), operating systems, and graphical interfaces. The physical layer of telecommunication was enabled via the emergence of optical fiber and new wireless communication technologies, while networking saw the development of the Internet (essentially packet switching) and the World Wide Web. These advances combined to realize a series of new applications of information and communications technologies (ICTs) such as business software, e-mail, and e-commerce. However, progress seriously stumbled with the collapse of the dot com bubble, which among other things revealed a huge amount of misdirected investment that could have been used more productively. The question of the day is thus how to realize new "killer apps" to stimulate a new round of growth. The use of cell phones for communicating text, pictures, and video is a rapidly expanding area, but it seems unlikely that these applications will have a macroeconomic impact. Entertainment is a key industry whose fortunes are entwined with ICTs. Indeed, the application of ICT to innovating entertainment products is an important driver for the continued growth of the industry. Distribution of music and video via the Web could significantly stimulate demand but also raises the thorny question of how to protect intellectual property rights (IPR) of content providers. |
| 主题 | Institute Scholars (INS)
; Environmentally Compatible Energy Strategies (ECS)
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| 关键词 | Information technology
computers
Internet
broadband
cellular phones
economic growth
innovation
video-on-demand
telecommuting
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| URL | http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/7097/
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| 来源智库 | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/128326
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Ayres RU,Williams E. The digital economy: Where do we stand?. 2004.
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