Opinion

The magical mystery tour

The more technology advances, the more it resembles magic, as Arthur C. Clarke perceptively noted.

30 July 2002

Last night I went to a comedy evening with the Internet Solution crowd. Our long table evidently caught comedian John Vlismas`s attention, and he picked on a few of the IS guys.

The wisdom of the fool was quite evident. I doubt many people at our table actually knew how the Net functions, from top to bottom. They might have a grasp of networking, or an understanding of HTML, or even an idea of how an operating system functions. But how many people know every step in the process required to serve a simple web page?

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