Just as human society still envelops everything from pre-agricultural tribes, farming communities, and factory sweat-shops to information-based commerce, in different parts of the globe, so IT today straddles all three `waves’ of development from manual chaos to goal-oriented self-repair in different organizations.

~ Mark Burgess from, http://markburgess.org/blog_cap.html from, http://cfengine.com/company/blog-detail/cfengine-sysadmin-3-0-and-the-third-wave-of-it-engineering/

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