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Tech Trendspotting For The Future
Dylan Knight Rogers writes to mention a CNN article about an annual 10-year forecast of tech trends. Lots of analysts produce forecasts, but the Institute of the Future goes one step further by crafting artifacts from the future: "mocked-up products claiming to be from, say, 2009. You might go to an IFTF presentation and see baskets of finessed fruit that promise cognitive enhancement. Or you might wake up in the hotel where the IFTF seminar was being held to find your newspaper dated 10 years hence."
For those at Bank of America or any other place where this is occuring. Make sure you get your severance pay but do not pass on any more information that you have to. You may even considering passing on wrong information. B of A deserves getting screwed by you. If database maintenance has to happen every 12 hours tell them every 12 days. If they call you tell them the idiot you were training wrote it down wrong. Leave critical steps out. Dont provide key contact info or personal tricks. Get ride of any source code, documentation, or scripting that may make someone elses job easier. You get the idea. Remember still have the right to resist this through less obvious tactics. They screwed you and expect you to help them move on. WTF were they thinking. Thats like divorcing your wife and then asking her to teach you new wife how to blow you correctly or she won't get her alimony.
For those who don't work at B of A you need to make sure you never do business with them again. Tell your family not to do business with them either. Explaing to them that they are taking jobs from away from people in your field. This really pisses me off. More to come soon.