Thinking on that, it is easy to arrive the conclusion that the Internet is one of the most important technological revolutions for the people's life. In less than 5 years, it already modified the life of millions people around the world. She acts much more than a source of information or space for entertainment, she is an extremely powerful way of communication, of learning, of doing business, of human relationship, and much more than this, it made possible a way totally new to live, without physical limitations and without geographical barriers...

As you know, my job and my studies, nowadays, are based in the new aplications to the Internet and I consider this a very important question because, it is clear that much more than to know the Internet impact, it is important to begin to think in the consequences of this impact. Will it bring advantages to all countries, to the development and to the underdevelopment countries? Can anyone enjoy the thousands of resources and means that the Internet provides? Will we have once again a "excluded mass" that only tends to increase?

For all this, I could not move away my question of this technological world. And also because, intelligence and creativity are qualities that fascinate me. The man gets to prove once again that his capacity to invent, to build and to revolutionize the world through these is infinite and at the same time incredibly growing. How many of us no longer asked: What more lack to invent? Is it not impossible to go beyond?

And every day we have the answer, we have the proof that we are not limited beings, we have an immense intelligence and creativity to go always further on, and consequentely to not only change the world, but also to make a better world...In my professional life and my studies, I read specific magazines, I participate of Congress and lectures, I talk with more experienced people than me and I use the Internet resources to get information.
In my workgroups, as Academic Center to discuss problems and to give suggestions about our course and the University in itself, we used a lot of discussion list through e-mail and forum through Internet.
In the other things, I usually use newspapers, television and Internet.

What do you see when you look at the youth in your country?

It´s so difficult to answer, because here we have so different “kinds of youth”.
But, I usually see people by the way they work with problems (your own problems, or the problems that affect your city and until your country). Thinking on that, I think I could divide in three types:
1- Young that try to flee of the problems (simply ignoring them or through the drugs, alcohol,...)
2- Youth that look for the solution through the radicalism
3-Youth that look for a balanced solution

Unhappily, I don´t think that the most of brazilian youngs is of the “third type”, neither the “second type”. In my opinion, the most flee to the addiction life or to the criminality because of their bad quality life, on the other hand, the others ignore or they fake the inexistence of the problems. For example: they think that they will be protected of the greenhouse effect because his father will pay for that, and they don't realize that his life quality at a long time already comes been degraded.As you know, the technology is totally present, in my studies, in my work, in in my day by day, in my life.

I use to say that each new technology is like an addiction.
Before you to "try her" finds completely useless.
After "proving her" once, you doesn't get more to live without her.

I think it was already clear for all that it is impossible to delimit where the technological discoveries will stop . At least, I can't do that and I doubt from any forecast about it. Simply, because those discovered are a man's fruit, and I consider the human mind something without barriers and totally unexpected.

But, what worries me, or better, I prefer to believe that, nowadays, all of the technological inventions have as objective, to improve and to facilitate in some way the people's life. And, histories as the bomb-atomic and the own Internet (initially used in wars purposes) are an exception and no more they will repeat.

How do you see the digital divide affecting development (social, political, economic) around the world?

When I read this question I laughed a lot ( J ), because I usually ask that question...
The "digital exclusion" is a reality, what we have to do is to give solutions to reduce that. Because, the consequences, mainly, in the countries less developed will be drastic (economically and socially).

Then, when I ask that question, I usually ask for a solution. And of all answers that I had, the most coherent was of a great technology company:
"We don't have more as allowing that just a small portion of the world population is users (consumers) of technology, that is harmful for us as for the excluded population too. We have to invest in projects that take the technology reality for that population...”