Uh-huh. This guy Carr reminds me of the famous New Yorker cartoon showing two scientists standing at a blackboard. On the left and right are a bunch of equati

Uh-huh. This guy Carr reminds me of the famous New Yorker cartoon showing two scientists standing at a blackboard. On the left and right are a bunch of equations, and in the middle, connecting the left-side with the right-side is a cloud labeled "then a miracle occurs"... See it here: http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?sid=40967 http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?sid=40967 Or maybe he was the screenwriter of the movie "Independence Day" who thought that genius hacker Jeff Goldblum could easily connect his earthling laptop to the alien mother-computer and inject a virus that would destroy all their critical systems. Great cinema, lousy computer theory. I work for a high-priced technical consulting company and regularly work closely with a number corporate 1000 companies. Guess what? Their problems are complex, their systems and applications are complex and wildly divergent (even when comparing companies within the same industry), and their management and IT people exhibit vastly different levels of skill. It is far from being a cookie-cutter world out there, and Carr is a fool for implying otherwise. Carr is making a living by being controversial and inflammatory. He should spend more time on the ground actually working closely with some IT organizations and get to know their problems... then let's see if he believes this nonsense then (assuming he's even capable of understanding the details of what his IT friends actually do from day to day). Shame on any execs who actually swallow this bilge...