 According to Kallinikos, the proliferation of digital means of information processing and transmission, and the growing involvement of the Internet in social life are altering the socio-economic environment in which organizations and institutions are embedded.Over the last years Kallinikos has worked on the idea of "the information habitat" to capture how increasingly abstract and disembedded data processing and calculation restructure organizations and institutions.He sees information technologies as electronic successors to writing, notation and paper-based means of dealing with information.