New technologies like the Internet offer many possibilities of work and life, e.g. new knowledge-based applications in economy. Beside the advantages of applications of the new technologies also negative consequences appear when using the Internet and different “virtual forms” of work, learning and social life. This paper deals with aspects of the Internet use and with a project about the development of new integrated concepts for (regional and local) economic development, by Internet-based knowledge processing and learning in business support agencies (BSA) in Germany