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Cringely's 2002 Predictions
An anonymous reader submitted Cringley's
2002 predictions. Nothing totally
unexpected: XML will explode (hasn't it already?) and Microsoft will
keep their mits in every big deal in the tech industry. Other stuff
too, like the return of VCs and IPO frenzies (yawn), and that Rich
Media won't quite make it yet in 2002.
I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them.
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Other stuff too, like the return of VCs and IPO frenzies (yawn)
How can you yawn at that idea? Obviously you don't live in work in the real world if you find the idea of the tech industry rebounding and causing hoards of cash to be thrown back into it boring!!!
Microsoft will keep their mits in every big deal in the tech industry.
Hmm. I'm surprised this article wasn't from the loking-in-the-crystal-bal dept.
mit
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
2. Linux will continue to be no more than a sliver of 1% of the desktop.
3. Linuxites will misunderstand the reasons for both 1 and 2, and will argue about them endlessly on slashdot.
I would have found this post interesting, but I got lost in the sea of acronyms...
You Know You've Been Working In The Computer Industry Too Long When:
Which reminds me...
I
predict
that
by
2003,
Tom's
Hardware
articles
will
have
only
one
word
of
text
per
pageview.
Companies will continue to develop products that nobody needs nor wants. They'll all go behind schedule and over budget. Most of the projects will be mercy-killed before they even start to work. The few that make it to the store shelves will be ultra-niche items that cost 4x more than anyone would even dream of paying for them.
The companies that lose millions on these products will just scratch their heads, blame the economy, and start designing all over again.
The lucky ones will go out of business.
XML will explode
...killing everyone inside.
G.
Slashdot will link to every article written by Bob Cringely in 2002. Bob Cringely will start writing for Slashdot, under a level two pseudonym. This post will receive a +5 funny.