Servers will merge to form hyper-servers run on supercomputers. The number of ISPs will be considerably diminished. 50 companies ruled the greater part of the media markets in the USA in 1983. The number in 1995 was 18. At the end of the century they will number just six.
Shallow programming dominates as long as the bloodbath proceeds.
20 years hence, we might come to understand that computers improved our capacity to do things differently and more productively. When it is introduced, how it is introduced, for which purposes is it put to use and even by whom it was introduced largely determine the costs of its introduction and, therefore, its feasibility and contribution to the enhancement of productivity. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe had better take note. Issue four of Central Europe Review examined the issue of information technology in Central and Eastern Europe. The author is General Manager of Capital Markets Institute Ltd, a consultancy firm with operations in Macedonia and Russia.