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posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 30 2020, @01:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the left-for-dead-when-InfoWorld-folded dept.

Bob Cringely is running a new prediction at https://www.cringely.com/2020/03/25/2020-brings-the-death-of-it/

2020 Brings the Death of IT

IT — Information Technology — grew out of something we called MIS — Management Information Systems — but both meant a kid in a white shirt who brought you a new keyboard when yours broke. Well, the kid is now gone, sent home with everyone else, and that kid isn't coming back... ever. IT is near death, fading by the day. But don't blame COVID-19 because the death of IT was inevitable. This novel coronavirus just made it happen a little quicker.

I mentioned the switch from MIS to IT because that name change presaged the events I am describing here. Management Information Systems was an artifact of big business, where corporate life was managed rather than lived. Information Technology happened when MIS escaped into the wild. MIS meant office buildings and Local Area Networks while IT includes home workers in their pajamas which, frankly, describes me at this precise moment.

To quote the immortal Al Mandel (why am I the only one who ever quotes the immortal Al?) "the step after ubiquity is invisibility." IT was the last visible vestige of MIS and now it, too, is gone.

Another recent post has an interesting view of venture capital: https://www.cringely.com/2020/03/25/prediction-covid-19-will-kill-a-ton-of-startups-or-so-it-will-seem-as-vcs-pull-back/


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 30 2020, @02:21PM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday March 30 2020, @02:21PM (#977208) Journal

    But none of us on the "new heroes" side are going to get jack or shit. We're on the front lines with no health insurance, no vacation, and subsistence wages if even that, risking our lives for wealthy hermits who can drop out and hide, and no matter what happens to us or how many of us die, it'll be business as usual or worse once this is all over, because fuck the poor.

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  • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday March 30 2020, @03:06PM

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Monday March 30 2020, @03:06PM (#977222)

    > because fuck the poor.

    [sarc]
    They deserve it, otherwise they wouldn't be poor
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @06:59PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @06:59PM (#977314)

    Admittedly, for us that can afford to hide out as hermits, that is, effectively, doing our part.

    The more hermetic we are, the less danger we put you and everyone else in.

    • (Score: 1) by r_a_trip on Tuesday March 31 2020, @09:54AM

      by r_a_trip (5276) on Tuesday March 31 2020, @09:54AM (#977571)

      ***The more hermetic we are, the less danger we put you and everyone else in.***

      True, but that kills the narative that only the grunts are doing their part, while all those in isolation are just useless fat cats who serve no purpose. Everyone is the savior in their own eyes and the rest fodder for Hades.