And unfortunately my fears at the time were right, because by the 1990s at the latest, no halfway productive person in the working world could do without basic knowledge of information technology. Inevitably, this led to a whole new type of employee in our society, those who could spend an entire working life without at least ever knowing the difference between a fax machine, a copier or even a shredder, not to mention programming or using other tools — I don't accept Microsoft's solitaire or the Moorhuhn shooter, even if they were the reason why one or the other boss or head of department always had to have the latest computer on his desk.