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The article is 6 years, 6 months, 6 days from today. Spooky. http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=8&...
Spooky? Why? Pick any day and you could find articles written 6 years, 6 months, and 6 days before that date.
There's some truth to what he's saying, in that the most interesting innovation is probably going to happen beyond the web- clean tech, biotech, and life sciences.
It does seem like the fields you mention are ripe for innovation, though. I wonder if CS will be playing a significant auxiliary role.
The future of the Internet and technology? I see that companies like Envato will win in the long run. MicroStock sites like Themeforest, code canyon and Active Den. Every man and his dog will purchase a computer, install some software and build something tiny and useful. People will build script, themes, plug-ins... They'll make enough money from it to live and some will become rich.
The ones that don't understand well what it is and the bad developers will get jobs at the 'big companies'. The smart will start small startups that either sells for millions or make 10 times a salary they can get from working a 9-5 job.
The future is in the hand of the smart. Sites like Hacker News and companies like Ycombinator will help them. I'm from a third world country, I know programming before I knew the Internet, but I wasn't able to use my full potential before sites like HN and blogs, forums, communities existed.
They completely changed my mind, made me another person. From someone that loves programming and build software to someone that understand the market and is able to build something that can makes him many and avoid working for a company with a stupid boss.
The future is in Freelancing, at least for me.
M$ has good research going on. The question is whether it can be productized.
On the other hand he's successfully made a boatload of money for investors.
Repost but Larry Ellison, 2005 interview with SF Chronicle The entire interview is interesting for Larry Ellison predicting the future and then implementing it. "Q: Does that lead to a consolidation period? A: The industry is maturing. It is going to consolidate. That's exactly what happened to every other industry. I didn't invent the idea of consolidation. What happens during a period of consolidation is (the compa…
Larry's now the guy putting the losers together.
He's had a bit of a change of heart about Cloud Computing since 2003, eh? 2003: "But the thing I'm most interested in is software as a service. That idea that every customer who wants to do accounting on computers, or every customer who wants to do inventory, or manufacturing, has to figure out what computer to buy, what operating system to buy, what Cisco router and switch to buy, what database to buy, is just nonse…
Maybe he doesn't get it, because services like Heroku are much more than clustering.
Repost but Larry Ellison, 2005 interview with SF Chronicle The entire interview is interesting for Larry Ellison predicting the future and then implementing it. "Q: Does that lead to a consolidation period? A: The industry is maturing. It is going to consolidate. That's exactly what happened to every other industry. I didn't invent the idea of consolidation. What happens during a period of consolidation is (the compa…
"Then a guy by the name of Alfred Sloan decided to get all of the good losers together" Larry's now the guy putting the losers together.