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/
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @03:17PM (1 child)
Oh baloney. This shit is even MORE complex to integrate in a mehdium to large organization than having dedicated datacenter. IT/MIS being a "lived" experience we can all have in our jammies is just an artifact of the massive continuous pain in the ass the IT teams are going through and the fact those teams being conveniently spread across the planet so you can pretend there aren't actual humans laboring to perpetuate your pointless B-Ark "Creative/Knowledge-Worker" job you can do anywhere there's WiFi until such time as we can blast your useless, resource-sucking ass into the sun.
(Score: 1) by r_a_trip on Tuesday March 31 2020, @10:13AM
Friendly reminder that the "A and C ark" people all died, because they failed to see what "B ark" people actually did. Most of the "B ark" people survived.