What is changing an what will change?

• The importance of classical, industrial jobs declines
• “Knowledge-workers” are in higher demand
• The “added value”, the source of all wealth occurs more and more on computers, less with industrial jobs
• More industrial jobs are getting replaced with robots, programmed by “knowledge-workers”
• If knowledge engineering is the source of the “value creation”, then communication is the “vehicle” to make skilled, advanced work more efficient
• Almost no one can do things alone, one has to communicate
• Knowledge is immaterial and can easily be relayed using the internet, the “knowledge-workers” don’t have to sit together
• Communication increasingly happens on a global scale, knowledge is constantly accessible virtually anywhere
• Communication means permanent availability and more constant cross-linking.
• Privacy decreases
• Everything happens quicker