Systems and Computerization

The Emergence of the systems age also parallels the historical advance and culmination of computerization and applied mathematics. Computerization has grown from a conceptual invention housed only in scientific laboratories to become the modern world’s most practical tool, as common people have grown to understand and use computers. Computers are so practical, because they derive there logic and power from the mathematical modeling of reality. Smaller and larger interrelated systems that describe and predict truth, and achievable future states, can now be calculated instantaneously on some readily available computer.

The computer is so advanced, but it is also so simple. The first steps toward computerization epitomized simplicity when developed by Welhelm von Lightnitz over 300 years ago. He created the binary system in which information was based on 0 and 1. He based the dichotomy on the thesis that there is God. God was thus assigned 1 and 0 was the opposite (interesting fact, isn’t it?). Today, computers capitalize on the dichotomy in terms of running the on and off sequences at the speed of light with a delicately controlled electrical current associated with powerful information storage and processing networks. Gradually, we have sophisticated von Lightnitz’s basic concept with computing devices that can translate trillions of 0/1 frames a second. The simple concept has been integrated into much more complex and interrelated frameworks to give us the modern-day personal computer, the Internet, artificial intelligence, wireless networks, space travel, smart houses and other vast frontiers of opportunity in cyber-space. Computer systems keep evolving to appear in every product and service category; but they also remain such fragile devices in the wrong situations or places, just like the rest of human existence. Think about how powerful humans can be, yet how fragile humans are. Humans are smart enough to make weapons of mass destruction, or create a dangerous virus that could be released by a few misplaced key strokes or even a clumsily dumped cup of coffee; that could destroy even the inventor.