Too often the business world of today treats computers as if they are indeed magic, yet those who do so are at risk of misunderstanding what computers are really all about. Simply said, they are tools similar to a food processor or a musical instrument. Yes, they are important, but the magic has little to do with the tool, and all to do with the music and vitality of data and information in itself.

The fact is, information is a static form of human thought. Think about it for a minute, if the human does not think of a thought, does the information even exist? In Ray Kurzweil's book The Age of the Spiritual Machines (Fabulous book!) he demonstrates how information is exempt from the laws of time and space because information does not have mass. If you use that as the starting point for a thought pattern, it becomes easy to understand why the "truth" of something often times has more to do with the observation than the presumptions of it's existance.

And THAT would explain why those with greater wisdom often are less willing to state with certainty the facts of a particular situation. The more one learns, the more one understands how much is not known.