The computer has led to immense changes in economic and business life.
First, businesses now have to be computerised or they risk failure. Every big
corporation bases its operations on computing, regardless of which sector they
are in. For example, Coca-Cola, the BBC and Levi’s market and sell different
products and services, yet they all share one basic property – without
computers their operations would collapse. Second, computing is an economic
dynamo. Japan, China, India and many other countries have large IT sectors
which drive their economies upwards. Furthermore, the developed world is
moving from an industrial-based economy to a computer and IT-based one.