Future Information Technology — Motor of the “Information Society”

Abstract

The terms Information soeiety and Information technology have recently, with impressive speed, become slogans in our everyday discussion. If so far mainly small circles of experts from the fields of science, economics, and politics, or from the trade unions have occupied themselves with the growing possibilities of the new information technology and its potential economic and social effects, it can be stated that now-adays the mass media — themselves fundamentally concerned by such innovations — make themselves heard with contributions pertaining to these developments and the consequent and very differently colored pictures of the future.