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In 2002, when I was fi nishing my fi rst book on new technologies, the world was recovering after the failure of the so called “dot-com boom”, i.e. too large expectations towards the information technology. Two years later, while I was preparing the next publication, information technologies constituted the core of the modern business, although digital cameras, MP3 players, and HD technology were probably not as popular as today.