Seven androids – and their lessons for enterprise IT

Robot Maria
In Metropolis, Fritz Lang's modernist masterpiece, heroine Maria tries to unify the subterranean workers and skyscraper-living leaders of a future city. A malcontent creates a robot, disguises it as Maria and uses it to foment discord and riots. In the end, amid scenes of chaos, it is destroyed by the workers and the human Maria restores balance and order.

IT moral
Don't allow your IT to dictate how your company runs, least of all in the names of efficiency and regulation. An enterprise where the people are restricted in what they can do by the systems that should be supporting them will be unable to grow as it needs, and the employees will be frustrated and unhappy. Also, if you are going to live in an ivory tower, make sure you know where the fire escape is.