To Boldly Ask IT for Development Work

Are you ever mystified by the way that, in Science-Fiction films, the crew of space-ships are able to reprogram their ships' computers in order to respond to emergencies, needing no more than a brief klip...klop...klip on the keyboard to effect a huge software change. Phil Factor has found real-life in IT to be so different, and so he wonders if there a more realistic way that one might imagine IT's contribution to Space adventures.