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Internet, cell phones, video game consoles, BlackBerry: new technologies are changing our lives. But how far can they take us? To hyperconsumption? To the multiplication of our "friendships"? Abandoning our privacy? Professor at the School of Management Sciences at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Benoît Duguay studies the practices and phenomena related to consumption. In November 20009, he published the third volume of a trilogy on the subject: Consumption and new technologies: In the hyper world, with Liber editions.