The biggest impact IT made to the world and changed the way we eat, think, communicate or book tickets was due to a simple mechanism of decoupling information from material.Communicating has been one of the foremost of the human trait. Smoke signals was one of the earliest technologies for decoupling the speaker from the communication. A leap of ages brings us to telecommunication which in its own way revlolutionised the world. It was inconceivable in that age that a instant communication could happen without the communicator being in sight.
What is decoupling exactly? Every person or a material would have information associated with it. If it is feelings and opinioins for the former, it would shape size, taste colour etc. for the latter. To get the information the matter should be in sight or in some cases vicinity. To know how much the stone weighs, it should either be lifted by you or seeing its size you could take a guess. But what if that stone is somewhere in Antartica? So if I am able to get information of the person or the thing, without being there, then it is decoupling.
Continuing the story of telecommunication, the decoupling of the human and his voice was successfully done but what about material? The least you could do was tell watson that the acid burns viz you need an human intervention for decoupling. Now zooming into our own era, the decoupling is now complete. You dont need to be at the Bus station to know what time the bus is expected, you dont need to be at the airport to know what meals they serve on the flight. The information is fed either manually or automatically onto the system and is there for us to access. True decoupling indeed!
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Harsha said
De-coupling…I learnt a management jargon today; i had not come across this term,even after many years in the industry.–>