Evolution of Information Processing — Basic Concept

At the moment we are in the middle of dramatic developments in information processing: whereas up to the 1950s all information processing was done by natural systems only, there has been, since the invention and the coming into widespread use of computers, a continuously changing balance between human thinking and technical information processing. This is emphasized by the political notion that we are on the way towards an “information society”, a type of society in which merely commodities in the form of information and services for the social sphere are produced by people, but hardly any material goods. Classical goods and services are produced by computers in fully automated firms.