Are Information Systems boring?

Recently after a conference colleagues and I were poking fun at how all those participants (including us) claimed that subjects such as "Help Desk processes according to ITIL", "Alignement of IT support organizations", or "taxonomies for financial IT services" were "highly fascinating" or at least "extremly interesting".

I pondered for a while about a possible implication of this: Are Information Systems boring?

Of course you find the cold glitter of efficiency on the surface of all organizational subjects, but is that really enough to carry over deeply felt facination? Compared to lets say sending robots to Titan, climbing into the intestines of dark mysterious caves, digging up relicts of ancient times, or reconstructing the life of species vanished from earth eons ago?
To put it even more brutally: Are IS really just as "interesting" as traditional financial accounting? If this was the case, could you really ever candidly convey positive emotions towards them in IS education?

Well, I came up with the following positive intermediate answer: Information Systems are not boring.

When I reflect my own development there have been several points at which Information Technology aroused the same deep emotions in me as the robots on other planets might have: That tickling feeling that IT is once again opening new and beforehand unimagined doors - with some unspoken revolutionary force resonating with it. This has been the case when I tinkered the first time with a PC (an Apple-IIin 1980), when I discovered the unbounded possibilities of the WWW, and (at some lower degree) at occations like learning about the product Hypercard, the power of object-orientation, ubiquitous computing, SOA, ...

I am strongly convinced that IS education really should always show the link to such enabling events, and IS research should be all about harvesting them - stepping through those doors. The organizational issues are just means to that end. Sounds corny? Maybe it is. Better corny than boring.