http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1098455,00.asp
This points to an article about an article in the Harvard Business Review, to the effect that information technology has simply become a part of business, without much scope for demand. Holding down spending, becoming a follower, and examining vulnerabilities have become the priorities for business today.
This certainly is not a cheerful viewpoint, nor is it one which is necessarily wrong. Nevertheless, I feel something is being missed here -- that people are still creating new tools and systems [of which the whole blogging phenomenon is by no means a minor element], and there is no way we can tell in advance that some new technically-driven inequilibrum will not result. If it does, then an extension of the technological "arms race" in business should logically follow.
My bet here is that this will be driven more by software and its effective application than by hardware.
Posted by jho at June 16, 2003 09:36 PM