Asked the hookah smoking caterpillar. The advent of the age of telecommunications requires a rethinking of our concepts of time and space. One cannot think exactly like a refrigerator repair person and untangle a crashed computer system or network. A computer systems analyst could probably get a refrigerator up and running, eventually. But a refrigerator technician would have less luck with the computer network.
Systems analysts see themselves as wizards or gurus.
They deal in chaos and uncertainty. They are outside the constraints of space and time, and it seems that they are working magic. The warp speed journalist does the same. And often the language and concepts of decades old science fiction classics provide useful vocabularies. Now there are hyper-space mathematicians and physicists working on Einstein's unfinished work of deriving a unified field theory.