It's going to be even more fun than it was. That's what real leadership is all about. In your article about the demise of IT organizations, you conveniently skip over the issue that regardless of the ownership of the physical assets, the IT group is responsible to the remainder of the organization for service-level objectives. That is, there is much greater functionality but less reliability. A perfect example is the typewriter versus Microsoft Office.
Office offers wonderful functionality, but it crashes regularly.
Rather than diminish the importance of the IT function, this new reality has actually thrust IT into the forefront of every business strategy we are undertaking. In all my conversations with other CIOs, I have found our experience to be consistent with theirs.