In fact, IT is most beneficial when it provides more profit. Agriculture is affected and is building its computerized plant and animal factories as well as precision farming systems. We live in revolutionary times. Until about 1984, industries invested most of their capital in machinery. In the mid-1980s, the amount spent on machinery was overtaken by the amount spent on computers.
Agriculture is thought by some as the growing giant consumer of IT and electronic technologies.
Soon it must be poised to reap the benefits of such investments. The Information Age is today dominated by the Network Age. Networking and communications will drive the revolution to its next level as we connect everything from cars and offices to tractors by some kind of Internet Protocol link. It is this linking of machines for information handling that is shaking society's very foundation. One critical uncertainty relates to the pace of global and technological expansion.