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title	From Database Systems to Global Platforms: Cyberspace and the new Rules of Geopolitics
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From Database Systems to Global Platforms: Cyberspace and the new Rules of Geopolitics

From Database Systems to Global Platforms:
Cyberspace and the new Rules of Geopolitics
Stéphane Grumbach1
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    Inria, France


                                         Abstract
                                         Database systems have been designed to optimize legacy organizations, such as administrations or
                                         banks. They contributed to a considerable improvement of both the efficiency and the reliability of
                                         traditional functions of society. The progressive densification of a network infrastructure, which connects
                                         everything continuously thanks to standard protocols to a global system, triggered a radical change in
                                         the cybernetics of societies. The database community adapted to a new paradigm, dealing with poorly
                                         structured data from innumerable sectors, instead of forcing data into its rigorous models. The digital
                                         was on the verge of freeing itself from the constraints of the old world. New actors emerged, platforms,
                                         which are in control of the mediation over increasingly many two-sided markets, condemning many
                                         actors to obsolescence, while changing the norms and forcing the laws. Beyond people and institutions,
                                         platforms are also changing the geopolitical landscape at a time where the challenge is not only the
                                         positions of nations in a conflictual game, but the collective adaptation to a fundamentally new global
                                         scheme: stay in a safe operating space for humanity.




SEBD 2022: The 30th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, June 19-22, 2022, Tirrenia (PI), Italy
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