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...