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caption_attribution_description: English: "The big question mark is hether the PC remains a Windows platform," said John Dodge, Enterprise CIO Forum community manager and former PC Week editor. See more: Is the PC Dead? Looking Back on Two Decades of Debate Renowned futurist Paul Saffo and veteran tech journalist John Dodge ponder past predictions about the death of the PC. Futurist Paul Saffo may have been the first to proclaim that the PC was dead back in 1991. Six years later PC Week editor John Dodge refuted Saffo's position, claiming the PC was not dead, but that it "will be with us a long time." Ironically, these two were on the front lines of a more than two-decade-long debate over the life and death of the PC that continues to this day amid the rapid rise of tablets and smartphones and slowing growth for traditional PCs. When contacted recently, both offered interesting perspectives on the cycles they've observed including the one the PC industry finds itself in today.
context_page_description: A journalist for over 33 years, John M. Dodge is a freelance writer and social media consultant. He is co-author of the Thinking Tech blog at SmartPlanet.com, writing netbook reviews for eWeek.com, consulting on social media, and contributing to his tech/personal blog The Dodge Retort.
  He spent nearly 20 years in top editorial and management positions at Ziff Davis Publishing Co. He was editor and executive editor/news at eWeek and vice president of news for Ziff Davis, where he coordinated all of the technology news across the company's websites. Dodge worked at ZD from 1983–2002 except for two and a half years at CMP, another high tech publishing company.
  Dodge was also a weekly e-business columnist for the Wall Street Journal online, author of a bi-weekly technology column for the Boston Globe, and a contributor to a technology column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has appeared on CBS News, CNN, Bloomberg News, ABC World News Tonight and other major broadcast outlets around the country.
  Until January 2009, he was editor-in-chief of engineering publication Design News, a position he held for two years.
context_section_description: A journalist for over 33 years, John M. Dodge is a freelance writer and social media consultant. He is co-author of the Thinking Tech blog at SmartPlanet.com, writing netbook reviews for eWeek.com, consulting on social media, and contributing to his tech/personal blog The Dodge Retort.
  He spent nearly 20 years in top editorial and management positions at Ziff Davis Publishing Co. (now Ziff Davis Media). He was editor and executive editor/news at eWeek(formerly PC Week)  and vice president of news for Ziff Davis, where he coordinated all of the technology news across the company's websites. Dodge worked at ZD from 1983–2002 except for two and a half years at CMP, another high tech publishing company.
  Dodge was also a weekly e-business columnist for the Wall Street Journal online, author of a bi-weekly technology column for the Boston Globe, and a contributor to a technology column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has appeared on CBS News, CNN, Bloomberg News, ABC World News Tonight and other major broadcast outlets around the country.
  Until January 2009, he was editor-in-chief of engineering publication Design News, a position he held for two years. He retired in from IDG in July 2015 and still writes for his favorite newspaper, The Boston Globe. He also blogs occasionally at The Dodge Retort (dodgeretort.com)
  From January 2002 to September 2004, he served in top editorial roles at Bio-ITWorld and award-winning e-newsletter HealthITWorld.
  He currently resides in West Newbury, Mass. and is married with two children in college.
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