Tick IT

Sungmin: It has been many years since we have published a posting here. Are we back for sure, Howard?

Howard: Indeed, unfortunately, many distractions have gotten in the way. Sungmin, let's get back to putting some thinking down, perhaps to share, but also so we don't forget. 

Sungmin: How about we restart our Blog with what you have said to me the other day, ‘Ticking culture’?

Howard: Yes, I feel that I am living in a tick box culture. Everywhere I go, I am given a piece of paper to tick, tick, and tick….I have had many hospital visits and people visiting my home to assess various things which always seem to either start or end with ticking a form! I may have to tick or being ticked.

Sungmin: This endless tickings is a form of categorization that we need to use to inform a system we live in.

Howard: This is what we see in analyzing, designing and implementing IT Systems. We do little else but produce abstractions from context and the reality of the everyday living to form its own reality. 

Sungmin: So, the IT systems is an idealized categorization.

Howard: The result is, context is being lost.

Sungmin: ✔