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The Ups and Downs of Technology in Society

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New technologies in culture have generated a revolution in the way people observe, understand and relate to the world. However, Georjes J. Bruel, Head of Content at TD - TransformacaoDigital.com believes that “cultural transformations and technological progress are disassociated issues.

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Laniado, N.S. (2020). The Ups and Downs of Technology in Society. In: Simion, E., Géraud-Stewart, R. (eds) Innovative Security Solutions for Information Technology and Communications. SecITC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12001. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41025-4_2

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