Technology has been used in almost all the fields. One of them we can say is TRANSPORT and Communication.
Freedom and Traffic Control:
The free movement of persons has become a highly valued aspect of our society. Everyone regards it as his right to go where he wants when he wants. This requires a highly-developed transport system, enabling everyone to reach any place on earth in a reasonable time. To this end, traffic control systems have been developed using IT. No traffic control system without IT would be imaginable today. We only need to think of an airport, large shipping port, or main railway station. Even road traffic would collapse in any sizeable town if the computer controlling the traffic lights broke down.
There are an increasing number of traffic control systems on the German autobahn and in towns which regulate speed limits in relation to weather conditions and the volume of traffic using IT systems. There are also IT systems to regulate tolls for road usage now working, after much controversy around their initial failure to function when first installed a few years ago.
Protection of Nature and the environment:
The whole population is called to action as all media report ever more intensely on such issues as the environmental problems connected with the destruction of the rainforests, and the slaughter of elephants for the sake of their ivory. There is now no problem in the world which does not get widely reported (sometimes in drastic form) right up to the minute on television, Youtube, vie gmx or