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The recent artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is the tip of the iceberg of a megatrend that has been impacting the computing industry for decades now. Over time, computing performance has increased exponentially against power consumed and cost; information storage costs have also decreased exponentially. To put this into perspective, while a terabyte of data can be stored in a disk costing around 100 US dollars in 2024, it would have taken more than a million dollars in the early 1990s!

Using computers and their derivative products, such as software, web applications, games, and multimedia content, has become deeply tied to our normal lifestyle. This dependence led to the need for understanding the behavior of all the interacting entities: humans, computer hardware, software such as web applications, and even organizations as a whole. The end goal was to find ways to make interactions more efficient, which could lead to unprecedented business opportunities...