Digital technologies were presented as C Level Executive List an effective mechanism for overcoming the economic and social crises that took place in the 1970s. This was reflected both in the reports and projects of "computerization of society" and in the theoretical-conceptual elaborations that saw technology and knowledge not C Level Executive List only the key to getting out of the crisis but also the ideal parameters to reconfigure Western societies two. In the 1980s, these discourses on the supposed democratizing and empowering effects focused on personal computers and electronics and moved to the Internet with the beginning of its C Level Executive List commercialization and mass use in the 1990s.3.

During these years, the exponential C Level Executive List increase in users, together with the creation of the web, browsers and a large number of related companies, generated the highest peak of this discursive scaffolding. It was indicated C Level Executive List that the technical characteristics of the architecture of the network of networks allowed massive, decentralized and transparent access and interconnection, and these would generate an increase in participation and democratic debate, new channels to establish ties and develop C Level Executive List sociability, empowerment of freedoms and the exercise of human and individual rights, and the breaking of information monopolies.

While collaborative production and C Level Executive List digitization, processes would make possible an unprecedented expansion of innovation and economic growth. Such was the euphoria of the moment that speeches such as that of the C Level Executive List then US Vice President Al Gore assured that the Internet could "recreate the Athenian agora in our times." An atmosphere of great financial expectation was generated that sent the shares of the leading companies skyrocketing, and two world summits on the information society were announced to C Level Executive List congenialize a new global model of computerized society.