Epilogue

Our approach towards understanding information processing and its evolution in nature and society can only be considered a very first attempt to tackle a sophisticated set of scientific problems. Although it is possible to get some insights as shown in Chap. I, Basic Concept, and the various contributions to this book — we are far from a general theory of information processing and its evolution. Such a theory, however, seems to be a crucial prerequisite to an understanding of the evolution of the broad variety of real information processing systems in more depth.