The reason for this is quite simple. While utmost care is taken to select the best available hardware, we usually tend to forget that humanware is ultimately the deciding factor for their performance or otherwise. Half-baked computer professionals, like me, are only too happy to note that computers too are fallible like human beings. There is at least one similarity that exists between computers and myself. I am usually prone to catchingthe common cold.
Computers too are helpless before the virus.
It is but natural that computers, the monsters of yesteryears, are becoming more and more human-oriented. Having realized the declining standards of our intelligence, computers will soon be supplementing natural intelligence with artificial intelligence. That sounds too nightmarish for, the air-conditioned environment of the computer room has made me progressively lazy. This is a take-off on the spotlight given to the Euro as the currency of the next century. The article examines the role of the dominating global currencies across the past and the few years of the new century.