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The Biggest Roadblocks To Information Technology Development
ZDOne writes "ZDNet UK has put together a list of some of the biggest obstacles preventing information technology from achieving its true potential, in terms of development and progress. Microsoft's stranglehold on the desktop makes the list, as does the chip-makers' obsession with speed. 'There is more to computing than processor speed -- a point which can be easily proven by comparing a two-year-old PC running Linux with a new PC buckling under the weight of Vista. Shrinking the manufacturing process to enable greater speed has proven essential, but it's running out of magic ... What about smarter ways of tagging data? The semantic web initiative runs along these sorts of lines, so where is the hardware-based equivalent?'"
Government regulation is going to be the main thing holding back technology in the next 20 years. These regulations are spawned by people wanting to substitute their choices for yours and mine. And greed. Examples:
- Restrictions on talking on the phone in your car
- Restrictions on talking on the phone in airplanes
- Electrical rate-hikes and forced conservation to combat Global Warming
- Sarbanes-Oxley and other laws that make business finance riskier (so there are fewer tech startups)
- Internet taxes
- Other taxes that take money away from folks who could but tech and put it in the hands of governments
There are more examples, but I'm out of time.