A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci loafers, RayBans, and a YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the shepherd "If I can tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?" The shepherd looks at the man, looks at his peacefully grazing flock, and calmly answers "Sure, why not?" The man parks the car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, and connects it to his AT&T cell phone. He surfs the net to a NASA website, calls up a GPS satellite fix on the exact location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the location in an ultra-high resolution photo. He then opens the photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an e-mail on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an e-mail on Blackberry, and after a few minutes receives a response. Finally he prints out a full-color, 150 page report on his miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the shepherd and says "You have exactly 1, 586 sheep." "That's right," says the shepherd, "I guess you can have one of the sheep." He watches as the young man selects an animal and wrestles it into the trunk of the BMW. Then the shepherd says "If I can tell you exactly what your occupation is, will you give me back my sheep?" The man thinks about it for a second and then says, "OK, why not?" "You're a consultant." says the shepherd. "WOW! That's right," says the man. "But how did you guess that?" "It wasn't a guess," answers the shepherd. "You showed up even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked; and you don't know a damn thing about my business. Now give me back my dog."