the Digirati’s fatigue - or “Why Vista hasn’t taken off.”

In the interest of being able to eat in the future, I find myself trying to carefully track the trends in computing. Who will I sell my services to in the future? Am I going to have to bite off the cost of development tools on Microsoft’s Vista platform? How do Those Who Decide feel about this new operating system?

It’s hard to discern who to watch when trying to predict the momentum of the entire industry. However, from my perspective, it would appear that everyone is feeling a bit sluggish due to the slowing economy and lack of innovation into any new directions. [Read more →]

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Yet another opinion about the future of computing

At the end of this year, we’re beginning to hear all the people writing about the technical innovations, surprises, and vaporware that has caught our attention during the last 12 months. SCO finally gets its due, Oracle and Microsoft are being stranger bedfellows than anyone even pretended to think originally, and hardware just keeps on evolving. All these topics are served up for me on my customized Google homepage, pithy link and all, just waiting for me to begin reading…

In and amongst the froth of articles that will only cease with the arrival of 2007jan01, I find this piece. I read it because I’m a Free Software advocate; I pay attention to the author’s message (a much higher bit of praise) because it addresses the future of computing.

My big prediction:

We know what computers can do; I believe that there will be change in the way that computers do them.

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