Its so much part of our life now

Its so much part of our life now that IT is no longer as fascinating as when the first time we seen it. Whenever we are baffled by something we heard, read or just suddenly pop into our mind, we look for IT to discover facts from fiction and rumors. When we need to find the nearest MacDonald or Supermarket in a foreign place we just step into, we look for IT. And sometimes, we have are desperately looking for gifts idea or some old stuff no longer sold in the market, we again search through IT. Some people wanna know the latest news and scandal of their pop idol and they discover through IT too. Right now, I am studying for my FAA certification and when I need further information for what I am studying about, for example what is a Metering Orifice or whats the color of certain additive added Jet fuel, I search through IT for the answer.

IT is IT--Information Technology of our Internet and its nothing exciting anymore and nothing new. Just that everyday new information are pump into this gigantic global network accessible by anyone with a PC, modem and telephone line/ cable. The collective term to describe all this information is age old. It have blended into our life so much that we instinctively and intuitively go for our mouse click each time we need to search, read, send and show information. Some people won't even appreciate or realise the power of getting information at a click of a button that would not have happen 1 decades ago. This kind of power bestow to mankind have never happen overnight like some Virgin Mary miracle but took a long period of refinement. Significantly, introduction of broadband have effectively breakdown almost all the barrier in Information Technology. Broadband really gave the power of "info at a click of a button" unlike dial up which is "Wait for info at a click of a button". What now left for us is not speed but content of our earth powerful information system and mans creativity and thoughts are limitless thus there isn't a exhaustive list of things we could do with this system we got in place.

I come to realise that you could literally base your entire study curriculum on whatever information you could source from the Internet. Just look at the choices we all got! I could search anything on Google for my studies and not to leave out "Wikipedia", the online Encyclopedia which have already turn my precious collection of thick Encyclopedia into household step stools. Maybe those old pages can be use to wrap Otak or Nasi Lemak.

So convenient that one day, books might be extinct and all that the future archaeologist might dig out from civilization is portable harddisk, DVDs and IPODs instead of stone tablets and ancient scriptures.