5. Digital documents and the information society

In addition to digital documents, there are new uses and working methods that are leading to a new vision of society. The digital document, and more generally the computerization of data processing, has led to a reduction in the number of documents linked to public or private bureaucracy . On the other hand, books of literature and many other types of work have not disappeared from our everyday environment. The electronic "book" has not enjoyed the success of the digital document. Beyond the medium, the type of text implies a specific use that digitization has not necessarily revolutionized. The greatest changes have occurred in instructional, utilitarian...