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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @07:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @07:12PM (#977318)

    I prefer Harry Q. Bovik [cmu.edu] and just a reminder for those of us hackers in need of a good laugh, SIGBOVIK 2020 [sigbovik.org] is instead an online event on April 1st (or perhabs it's a joke, you never know).