IT is IT?

Our office had a recent incident that caused mild flooding in our building, and though our department wasn’t greatly affected save for our floors, our land of patch panels, wires, cables, computers, i.e. our IT Department was. Funny how our smallest department can demand so much attention; when our server has some malfunctions, it seems as if our operations are paralyzed. No emails, no OCS (our system for marine personnel), no internet. Makes one think, are we now that dependent on IT, on computers, on technology? I shudder at the thought of movies whereby artificial intelligence dominates humanity: The Terminator, I, Robot, Matrix. My goodness. Hopefully life will not imitate art.

Hasta la vista, baby.