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Jan 19Liked by Alistair Dabbs

I predict the future will arrive tomorrow, at which point I will focus my attention on the day after that.

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Jan 19Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Why do I always accidentally read "paradigm shit" instead?

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Jan 19Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Here in the States, the Gartner Group reports package easily read assorted trends and recommendations for the suits who run the company. Here's 2022's list (which is on the online internet) with the ominous note: "Some of you may even need to do all of these at once."

What are the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2023?

Digital Immune System

Applied Observability

AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (AI TRISM)

Industry Cloud Platforms

Platform Engineering

Wireless-Value Realization

Superapps

Adaptive AI

Metaverse

Sustainable Technology

And the "Do This!" memo is sent to the IT department.

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Jan 19Liked by Alistair Dabbs

It happens all the time, having worked in it for over 25 years.

We want full PCs , no we want thin clients, no we want PCs and so on changing every few years back again.

I love the person who thought it was an innovation to came up with a local copy of the cloud stored data - or a big storage drive which we all used to have and a lot of companies have racks of - I think the people I work for have petabytes of storage in the various data centres we use. As for new trends try making stuff work properly first and I think AI could be applied to a few people I know (AI as in almost intelligent)

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Jan 19Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Dennis Healey musy have worn headphones lot...

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Jan 19Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Wait just a god darned minute. Mr. 'Down right bloody sceptical' here

Headphones? Ear buds? Infrared light?

Unless someone has magically transferred my eyes to my ears wtf has infrared light got to do with audio reproduction?

Also, moved to Spain with a full head of hair 20+ years ago, now I'm as bald as a coot and you can't say we don't get an abundance of the infra red stuff.

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Jan 19Liked by Alistair Dabbs

I too am of that generation who walk the streets of Soho with a Chinese menu in my hand.... Aaah oooh!

I'm relieved to be able to blame the crystal set I made. There always was an aura of magic about listening to radio and no batteries.

Irrelevant to today's topic, but no doubt of interest to your learned readers, my first personal, portable radio had valves and a 90 volt battery. Then, a self-assembly Sinclair matchbox radio.... Poor reception but brilliant.

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Jan 19Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Ah VR.

I still remember when The Lawnmower Man came out and all my non-tech friends were trying to convince me that we would all be wearing headsets to play games and watch movies etc. They would not be told that the compute power to achieve that did not yet exist.

Still. At least it's not 3D TV. Remember that?

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Jan 21Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Ah yes, futurists. They'll be the people telling us it's the year of Linux on the desktop. Again.

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Jan 22Liked by Alistair Dabbs

I have but one prediction. If VR is ever to take off, it must first be embraced by the smut peddlers. Somehow I doubt Apple is going to let that happen; ergo, I think their latest attempt will be yet another fizzle.

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More than that, they've invented.... /local/ /storage/!

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