Every day I open a newspaper and read about a new piece of software that has just been launched. Software to help you organise your personal lives, software to help your kids progress at school. Software to improve your finances and software to help you communicate more easily with people around the world.

Software is also a great help to businesses as it can automate many of the tasks that used to have to be done manually. For example software can ensure the GPS tracking is set so that your limo arrives on time to get you to the airport and accounting software to automate the finances of any business.

There is always a level of investment involved in buying software, but certainly in the case of businesses, there is always a defined period of return on investment, after which the software has paid for itself and thereon actively saves the business money.

There is also customer service software which is less difficult to define the actual return on investment as you can measure if your business increases as a result.

Software for personal use and for business is part of our everyday lives now and is a multi-billion pound industry. The problem is though that it is so automated that we are starting to lose some of our inherent personal and social skills as a result of so much automation.