ABSTRACT
Books about information technology (IT) have a tendency to start with a general statement about the continuing swift developments in the field of computing and information processing and in so saying, the present author has conformed to type. However, while it is typical to discuss such developments in terms of falling hardware costs and technological advances, it is, at least for the human scientists amongst us, more interesting to observe such developments in terms of their influence on human activities. While theorists talk of the information age, we are in practice creating an information world where microprocessors interface between us and innumerable as well as previously unimaginable activities.
