Systematic well-being [IT Futures]

In 2001 an IBM manifesto called for computers that could regulate their own vital functions just as the human body does. Nearly a decade on, are we any closer to autonomic computing? The human body has given computer scientists a lot of pointers toward the way that computers can be managed, and physiologists´ discoveries about the workings of the body continue to inform the way systems are made more reliable and efficient. The discipline that seeks to learn most from our bodies´ ´operating systems´ is autonomic computing a concept w that marries human physiology to computer technology in such a way that even the most complex IT infrastructures are fully manageable.