http://www.computerworld.com/networkingtopics/networking/management/story/0,10801,84604,00.html
The concept of "autonomic computing" warms IT managers' hearts, even as it chills IT workers' souls. The capacity for systems to configure and repair themselves automatically bids to be more reliable than the current process, as well as being less labour-intensive, and less expensive. The article indicates that this trend is well-established, but will really begin paying off in the short- to medium-term future.
One wonders the degree to which knowledgeable IT technicians may be tempted to resist implementing such systems in their own economic self-interest. One also remembers the cheery riposte to those who feared a computer takeover: "You can always pull the plug!" -- well, now maybe we can't.
Posted by jho at September 11, 2003 11:06 AM