23rd March 2012, 03:19 PM
Interesting discussion, I suspect those who were not young in the days before the inter webby thingy etc might not appreciate the rapidity of change that it has initiated. It is here to stay but as yet it is unstable and to be honest costly and not so easy to use for those who have-not been brought up with it. My tame IT consultant spits feathers when anyone suggests that the internet it is in anyway secure. Everything on it is public one way or another. It is currently very much about generating cash rather than making life easier for people.
The change is so rapid that even those who have known nothing else do not necessarily know enough about the roots and origins of systems to understand how they actually work. I bet there are very few people under forty who could read punch cards. I am just waiting to see what happens when we get the first major world wide magnetic event since the invention of computers. The only reason things did not go pear shaped in 2000 was everybody prepared for it
The change is so rapid that even those who have known nothing else do not necessarily know enough about the roots and origins of systems to understand how they actually work. I bet there are very few people under forty who could read punch cards. I am just waiting to see what happens when we get the first major world wide magnetic event since the invention of computers. The only reason things did not go pear shaped in 2000 was everybody prepared for it