Information Technology

An interesting article from the New York Times blog regarding future engineering challenges, describes medicine as an information technology. They also comment that, once we move away from fossil fuels, energy will become an information technology.

This certainly made me rethink my definition of the phrase, "information technology." Here's a wikipedia's definition. Once you get past a simple concept of computer software and hardware; and expand into networks (nueral, social, data) and data management. The new definitions from the engineers begin to make more sense.

Speaking of wikipedia and a child's use of information technology, this was the main resource for Isaac's recent research assignment on the platypus. I think he also referenced an encyclopedia just for old time's sake.