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When you look at it from that perspective, any of them could go through a downturn in the next 80+ years that leads to some hot new company just buying them outright.
Weird that Nokia wasn't mentioned. Depending on how you count it, Nokia is nearly 150 years old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia
Anybody willing to make any predictions about the world 100 years from now is much braver than I am.
What is nearly certain is that there will be major technological shifts in the next hundred years. What they are is impossible to say. But the less married a core business idea of a company is to the current technologies, the more likely they can make the jump to whatever comes first.
List of oldest companies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
The free software movement giant will definitely be around in 100 years.
Terrible Article, I am surprised to see the from The Economist. It seems like they just want to name drop the most popular tech companies of late. Facebook has just as much chance of disappearing in 5 years as it does of being around in 100 year. Google probably has a better chance than any of these companies of being around in 100 years, they are in the oldest industry of all time. Advertising. Plus they have shown…