Computing technology is the most powerful and flexible technology ever devised.
For this reason it is changing everything - where and how we work, learn, shop, eat, vote, receive medical care, spend free time, make war, friends and love. The information revolution has become a tidal wave that threatens to engulf and change all that humans value. It is fundamentally social and ethical. As information technology accelerates, opportunities widen to satisfy the human thirst for knowledge, as well as the desire to be the dominant species on the globe and in the universe. Information is now the life blood of society and its organisations, and our dependence grows daily with the advance of the global information net and multimedia.