Is there a difference between Intelligence Technology and Information Technology? Obviously there is, a subtle difference but an important difference none the less.

Intelligence can be seen to stand in the kind of relationship to Information, as Information stands to Data, a more complex higher order of complexity of the same stuff, but a different thing.

Data is processed in relation to specific elements of signification to yield more valuable kind of data, information, that is in an ideal world more meaningful, more manageable and more comprehensible, or more salutogenic than the nitty gritty facts and figures of data.

The boundaries between what is data, what information, and what intelligence are vague subjective abstractions, but what connects them is technology.

Technology embodies quite a spectrum itself though, on the one side of technology it is often identified with cultural, scientific and industrial equipment, the devices through which we extend our abilities to tinker with and challenge our situation, from a shaped shard of flint employed in some primitive ingenuity of survival, through to fascinating monstrosities of engineering and resources we launch into the incredible deep space of extraterrestrial explorative indulgence.

The other side of technology is the ‘soft’ side, is the side of cognisance, of tactics, strategy and ultimately intelligence.