The future of the IT industry

as you can see the title is obviously quite grandstanding which is totally my intent. Well what does the future hold for IT service industry as we know it today? it's an excellent point for discussion.

We in the software industry are constantly soothing ourselves of the eternal need for hosted or standalone software solutions business big or small invariably need, but if you think for one second this is gonna last you are diving downhill the same road as our automaker counter parts 20 years ago, until last northern autumn they crashed and burned. complacancy should never set in and that is why we should constantly take a step back and check our prospects.

so this is my assessment without further ado.

• we gonna se a lot of cloud computing circa Google docs
• software will be made more intelligence, distributed, open-sourced no matter if you like it or not
• the economy of scale will increase more dramatically as the tool for the tools in IT undergo seachange. (if this makes sense to you. it's not a linear change)
• the language will become less important and service will take a stronger hold.
• handheld and portable application will see a more dominant position in sales and marketing and hence development efforts.
• web 3.0, 4.0, 5.0..... what is web? what is not web?
• we will truly be able to access anything, anywhere, anyway we want