The industrial revolution from Printed Matters
to the world wide web of
electronic hypertexts is a phase transition
to a new-age-of-information, remoulding almost all aspects of life.
We here dwell mainly on the impact on the Physics Community.
Many aspects, however, are not specific to Physics but apply
basically to many other fields of human activities especially in
science of course.
Physics means searching for the laws of Nature by experiments
and by developing
theoretical models casted in mathematical structures to predict
the experimental results.
The question here is, what can information technology help and how
will this process be affected by the new age of information.
In the first part I give scenarios of some aspects of physicists work.
We then will present the action that the German Physical Society
DPG 
is planning in close
cooperation with the
APS, the American Physical
Society.
Only specific action, world-wide coordinated
and interlinked with other fields activities will be able to
actively participate in the casting the future.