| The majority of world commerce today relies on | | | | modular computing giant which, for all its speed |
| Information Technology. From the accounting | | | | and mathematical prowess, could not retain a |
| software that handles your accounts and payroll | | | | program. It was a brain with no memory. It was |
| to your Web page, business is increasingly | | | | fed and spit out punch cards. Technology |
| supported by IT services and infrastructure. But | | | | advanced to Main Frame computers with dumb |
| like all good tools, IT is limited by our | | | | terminals. These behemoths gave off so much |
| understanding of it and the uses it is given by us. | | | | heat that they had to be cooled with water. |
| Looking at a model of Information Technology or | | | | Like their counterparts in the biological world, |
| IT Services and its infrastructure, it may not be | | | | computers have evolved to suit the current |
| surprising to find a correlation between the | | | | climate. They are sleek, powerful, and in addition |
| creation and its creator. More than that, it is a | | | | to individual applications, are designed to share |
| hologram of the creator. There are obvious | | | | data and services. The mainframes, themselves |
| similarities to hardware and parts of human | | | | have evolved into servers, supporting the brave |
| anatomy. There is a central processor, like the | | | | new Pantheon: a celestial convergence of power |
| brain. Information travels throughout the | | | | and knowledge, delivered in the blink of an eye. |
| computer by wiring similar to nerve axons. Input | | | | We are the masters of super-intelligent minions |
| units, like the mouse, the keyboard etc. are similar | | | | whose astonishing abilities are limited only by our |
| to human senses which gather information. But | | | | own ignorance, or lack of creativity. We stand on |
| take it to the next level and you will see a | | | | the brink of: "Your wish is my command" |
| labyrinth of reflections, each mirroring the other in | | | | capability. Power of this kind is best used when |
| form and function. | | | | balanced with knowledge and wisdom. |
| In the beginning there was ENIAC, a monstrous, | | | | |