From managing large and physically disparate teams of people, monks setting up shop on the Internet and consultants trying to keep their clients ahead of the game, the television programmes Cyberboss, Modem Monks, and Trend Trackers offer examples of what is being dubbed the 'Information Society'. Here we try to go further and highlight some of the underlying issues related to these programmes.

However, the development of the 'information society' has wider scope than these three examples. We look at how our homes and even our identities seem to have adapted to the Information Society.