The Coincidental Confluence of Economics, Business, and Collaborative Computing Dr. Michael L. Brodie, Sr. Technologists often think of technology change in technological terms.
Technology serves to realize more significant changes such as the way business is conducted.
More radical and more fundamental changes are those related to new economic models that underly, predict, and enable new business models and which define technology requirements. The potential offered by the next generation of technology will take at least a decade to understand and realize, since it involves fundamental change not only in computing models and practice but also in business and economics. Success requires overcoming major challenges such as distributed computing which simply does not exist in any scalable sense. Distributed object computing and applications, a wonderful idea, which if not superseded will manifest in a decade since it must scale up several orders of magnitude. The current industrial revolution will also lead to significant social and political change.