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All digital stuff: full steam ahead?

I recently started mulling over conversations again that I had no more than three or four years ago on the topics digitization, digitalization, or digital transformation. Snippets of conversation like: “What’s with the digitization hype? Haven’t computers been accompanying us quite continuously since the 70s?” Yes. They have – or have we accompanied them? Hmm.

Either way: computers suddenly supported tasks that we neither knew (nor really needed ) back then. Much faster and in higher frequencies – individual “workforces” suddenly increased productivity. The promise “everything will get easier” was actually delivered. On an individual level, however, in a way, it also feels like “everything just got more”.

Today, we’re totally dependent on computers already. But there is persistent talk about the fourth industrial revolution moving further ahead. With impacts as significant as once the steam engine had in the late 18th and early 19th century? Remember? Read the full blog here