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As a resource comparable in value to what oil once was, our personal data must be better protected. Today's infrastructure does not respect privacy standards, explains Nicolas Anciaux, a computer science researcher at France's Inria.

Europe may be a mess, the United States is having a slow recovery, and China is losing steam, but information technology is doing well. Researchers at Gartner project an increase greater than they forecast last quarter, led by cloud computing and new kinds of devices.

Just a few years ago, everyone viewed Internet content in the same way. But then devices like the iPad arrived. Say farewell to the Web we once knew.

Fantastic video on the progression of information technology, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman, remixed.