Information Technology Grows Up: Five Predictions for 2010

Nick Barley

Nick Barley takes a broad look into the future of information technology and makes predictions on the state of the industry by 2010.

Information Technology Grows Up

Five Predictions for 2010

Nick BarleyOracle

Technology experts have a bad record in making predictions about the future, as any venture capitalist with a fledgling dotcom company on his investment list will tell you. He would, however, be in good company in 1958, IBM Chairman Thomas Watson said: 'I think there is a world market for about five computers.'

With age and experience should come knowledge and foresight, but in 1977 Kenneth Olson, the founder of Digital Equipment, declared: 'There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.' A...

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