Does it matter where you host your application as long as it is affordable, has infrastructure compatible with your application and provides you 24X7 access, support and security. If we take example of dedicated hosting, then we load OS, app servers, web servers & create an environment and connect an IP and a domain name to it. The key element, which every IT professional knows, is that we need everything compatible right from hardware to memory to OS, app servers, web servers, environment and they make NO mistakes in confusing app server with application and OS with web server.

But then, are we doing anything new in virtual world, which has not happened before in our life? Does it make this age and time any special over our ancestors? Probably not, except the fact that we are helping universe to come closer and become more interactive to create “collective consciousness” to move into higher octave of human experience.

Now you must be wondering what the heck is this?

While building modern day civilizations after the birth of religions and structured Gods, we did exactly the same in creating cultures, societies and values. Religion acted as an environment for hosting the culture and society. Every family or religion or environment had well-defined firewalls against people of other culture and religion. It goes for values at individual level and we did not integrate religions and cultures of another origins. At family level, hosting the values was defined by religion and caste were applications created to build competency and skills.

For sure, we created communication layers by building APIs at application level between various religions and co-existed within one culture. But at the core level we maintained the uniqueness of our application and hosting environment. It was technically not possible to integrate two religions and cultures in those days because at application level it was crashing. None of it was upgraded with time and we did not have anything in the name of open source. Societies with each generation kept creating patches but that deformed cultures and religions furthermore and thus impacted individuals of our generation.

Armed with skills in IT, we have the task to recreate the same old rules in digital world to create contemporary values and this is where religion is being evolved into spirituality, and globe is coming together to finally integrate at culture and religion level for the first time in the history.

If software engineers globally think that they are doing something great in creating virtual world and playing god, then this is the right way to look at it. It is about mapping old world into virtual world or digitizing the entire universe with contemporary values and socio-economic rules, which empower every citizen, as technology becomes increasingly a commodity. It requires new world vision for next one century and calls for rewriting entire social fabric with new paradigms- right from hardware to OS and applications. But then wait, before you show this to your spouse to get pat on your back. Why is it that we are still very miserable about our self and have very low sense of worthiness?

There has never been scarcity of reasons to be so, but there are two fundamental root causes, which act as a force in keeping us away from dancing to the nature.

One we have very limited view to the world and our self, and second we, in software industry, do not sleep with our spouse or mate but with our pay packets, our degrees and next possible jump in our salary after 6 months and both these forces are caught in cause and effect so much so that we get up next morning cribbing about lack of contentment and less sex. On the way to office, we call up friends to find out if any other company is doing better than our company.

It is a question of our unique identity. We are obsessed with our identity as engineer or manager or father or husband, which are merely an application of our physical entity and even our physical entity is not our real entity but an application server. We do not recognize that the miseries in our life is nothing but our application throwing bugs based on obsolete program written in the childhood, patchwork done in adolescence and compiled in adulthood and we continue to deploy old paradigms & values in web 2.0 environment, which were written for DOS by our forefathers in Cobol.

Before you read further, you need to decide if you are a worker in creating new virtual world or you think you are on your way to become architect of new virtual world, if not already. Stop reading this article, if you have decided to be a worker because it is meant for architects of new virtual world, which I know your best friends and juniors are.

If you are an architect-playing god, you need to stop thinking like an engineer or any other identity you carry at physical plane. Here the question arises if you are not what you think, then WHO ARE YOU? What is your unique IP address and what is your domain? What is your hosting environment? What is your roadmap and what kind of applications you want to host and for sure what shall be the next version (your kids).

Your unique IP address is stored at energy level before you took birth and chose hosting company (your parents) and then mirror image of your hosting (your immediate family and your children). You chose the OS and web servers in religion and immediate environment with the vision and roadmap for your future before you converted from energy to matter through 9 months long process in a dark tunnel. It was during the process of 9 months, you lost memory of your business plan, which consisted of your vision, and purpose of life. For all IT professionals worth their salt, it was definitely not writing the codes and enhancing the skills and pay packet, but to participate in creation of whole new world. Else, life even today is much simpler without IT.

It is really very simple to discover your unique IP address and your roadmap. The process is effortless and does not require you to change anything in your life. Go ahead and buy yourself a beer or visit a temple, this process will not stop you from any of these but would bring more meaning and joy to such activities. It only requires that you run this process as background task while doing your work. You can run this macro as many times as you breath and I know now you are counting how often you breathe.

So let us say you run this macro as many times you remember you are breathing or best still, as many times, you get phone call from your wife.

Start asking just one simple question: Who am I? And let your mind continue to reply back in various forms and shapes but do not be satisfied. Keep asking this question till you keep getting replies. This is where you need to take help from all your learning so far and use your cribbing attitude to good use by not being satisfied with any reply your mind gives you. Because it will begin to give you all those replies which you have programmed so far. You need to break those layers.

Once you mind is tired of giving you programmed replies, it will search for replies from the host server, which is your inner self. You will hit a stage when you will hear no answer and there will be just silence on this question. That is it. Once you hit that silence, listen to it because that silence has your unique address hidden in you together with your roadmap and source code. Once you have access to source code, you know how to re-program it to make it compatible in web 2.0 environments of today and make it contemporary. Then you know how to design the roadmap and new versions of your life. Do you still need some one else or you think you can write your own destiny now?

Statutory Warning: Now do not run to your HR and ask who am I? else do not blame me for not getting increment in next quarter.