Today, no nation is an island.

A challenge that we have faced historically is that RFID data were an island of their own.

On one hand services themselves are mini applications; on another hand, the whole purpose of SOA was to break applications silos - islands of data and automation.

"No man is an island," and we are the type of being that does well only in social settings.

It is absurd to believe that we could plan our development as if we lived on a demographic island, as if everything will remain just as it is, minus a few million people.