http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/04/15/fortune.ff.trends/index.html
While doomsayers consider the world lost in woe, there are reasons for optimism, as evidenced in technology trends to standardization (lowering costs), open source (lowering costs), wireless (breaking infrastructure barriers), 'living' data (more powerful software), and selling software as a service (cost effective applications). The position taken here that the InterNet, as implemented in these technologies, is a great leveller, has certainly been disputed by other postings in this blog -- but there is no reason why the optimistic view may not be right.
Posted by jho at December 17, 2003 08:37 PM