| Abstract: | The industrial society has become history, substituted by the service economy, the knowledge economy or the information economy. But industry has only changed its form: the IT processes in particular are fundamentally industry-based, not only because of the hardware required by the informational processes, but also due to their infiltration into all service economy dimensions and our every- day lives. Modern life does not work without the IT infrastructure. Man-machine interfaces have become micro-industry structures, which transform IT-users into producers. Besides, all ecological problems and climate change challenge our industrial competences. Industry is the tacit power of our time. |
