Introducción
| Author | Claudia Madrid Martínez |
| Pages | 27-36 |
I
«is new money is like a shadow.
Its cool-gray shape can be seen but not touched .
It has no tactile dimension, no hef t or weight [...]
Money is a phantom from the past, an anachr onism.
In its place, traveling the world incessantly without rest
and nearly at the speed of light, is an entirely ne w form of money
based not on metal or paper but on technolog y,
mathematics and science…»
H1
«Internet es un elemento clave de la llamada «sociedad de la información»,
pues facilita los más variados servicios electrónicos interactivos y la comuni-
cación de todo tipo de informaciones (texto, sonido, imágenes, vídeo…)»2.
En efecto, internet constituye el punto de cristalización del desarrollo que las
nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación han inducido en la
forma de entender el desplazamiento de la acción macroeconómica hacia un
sector terciario caracterizado ahora, justamente, por el factor información3.
Denida como «… un entramado mundial de redes interconectadas entre sí
de un modo que hace posible la comunicación instantánea o casi instantánea
1 Henderson, Paul B. Jr., Modern Money, en:Electronic fund transfers and payments:
e public policy issues, (E. Solomon, ed.), Boston, Kluwer Nijho Publishing, 1987,
pp. 17 y ss., especialmente p. 17.
2 De Miguel Asensio, Pedro, Derecho privado de internet, Madrid, Civitas, 4ª ed.,
2011, p. 33.
3 Zapkau, Florian y A xel Schwickert, E-Payment-Systeme – Funktionsweise, Marktü-
berblick, Bewertung, Gießen, Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen, Arbeitspapiere
Wirtschaf tsinformatik, 2006/4, pp. 15-16.
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