https://medium.com/@mike.meyer/educational-cns-5359e418c0fc

by Mike Meyer

All contemporary educational institutions have digital Central Nervous Systems. This is the most apt analogy for the role of IT in the school, campus, university. Unlike biological evolution, human evolution has become external and is now controlled by information described by the physicist Stephen Hawking as a tremendously expanded form of DNA. This began with libraries as resources of this information but now has become much faster and totally pervades the educational and all other institutional entities. Human organizations are entities that are defined by information, consume information, and produce information. All components of this our now managed by people who manage IT. And that is not, in most cases, the faculty or traditional administrators of the campus.