The change of the world through IT and its consequences

Abstract

Beginning with the punched card system, through the condition of the PC with the mouse and keyboard, too the touch screen interface, shows the rapid innovation in the IT sector within almost 100 years. These innovations triggered many changes, not only through simplification in data processing but also in people's minds. Their desires and conceptions like the technology of today must look like, had changed and these accordingly must also the information nowadays accordingly be offered. It deals with the change of the world through information technology and its consequences, among other things how information technology came into being, what technological changes it brought as well as the changes that the networking of information technology brought. The focus here is on historical events and the resulting emergence of the Internet. The Internet has enabled the emergence of new markets and complete changes in business processes, from product development to the acceleration of business processes, their outsourcing to the emergence of new markets. The German market is discussed here.