
By ZDNet.com staff
Published: Tuesday 06 September 2005
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Anonymous
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UK
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IT Manager
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I hate the use of 'ICT' to describe what I do. Information has to, by it's very nature, be communicated, otherwise it is merely 'data' - and in fact even the term 'data' implies that the 'something' will be useful to someone somewhere.
'IT' is everything to do with communicating this data via whatever means necessary - there is no IT without communication, there never was. IT is all about the interface between man and electronic bits - whichever way you look at it.
Perhaps we should teach English better rather than changing terms so that people can 'understand IT'.
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