The technical evolution of information technology may be seen as a sequence of abstractions from switching and storage elements to computing machines, their general architectures, up to networked systems, applications, and functions. This is accompanied by growing diffusions from laboratory experiments, industrial applications of computers and programs to "computing" as an ubiquitous consumer-oriented infrastructure.

Computing as the basic facility of computing machinery will become a more or less hidden base technology much like the complicated codes that enhance the reliability of digital storages and networks.
Complex applications  for everyday uses are the stuff of the future information society - in cable as in mobile communication networks.