Digitalisation pressure – digitalisation opportunity

Many people are sick and tired of all the non-stop chatter about digitalisation, of Industry 4.0 and smart information. Isn’t it all just more hot air that’s being spewed out to get everyone talking? Is it really so important? After all, everything’s been working fine up to now, hasn’t it? And if it is so wonderful, won’t digitalisation make us all superfluous in the end? A subject, in other words, that requires closer examination.