IT will die - eventually

We have been stuck in a redundant IT paradigm for quite a while now and we are long overdue for a shift forward. I have been writing about this for a couple of years now and the message is starting to get traction.

Martin Schofield and Colin Beveridge discuss future of IT

Martin Schofield and Colin Beveridge discuss the future of IT

Martin Schofield (Retail Operations Director, Harvey Nichols) and I talked about the future of IT recently, as part of a discussion arranged by Computing magazine.

Our conversation, part of Computing’s Tomorrow’s IT Leaders campaign was filmed as a two part video.

At the end of part one, Martin observes that “IT will die, eventually” – my own perspective is that IT will first have to accept its proper place as only one part of a broader information systems approach.

What should die, as soon as possible, is the present obsession with IT as the end – instead of part of the means.

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  • http://www.domorewithsage.com Gary Kind

    I dont see how it can ‘die’. Sure the delivery mechanism can change, the hardware can change and how we access it can change. But IT will never die its use is becoming more and more ubiquitous wth each passing decade.

    What I would say however is that progress is more revolutionary than evolutionary. Cloud computing and SaaS is being touted as the next big thing when in fact time-slicing and being charged for ‘processing’ time from a mainframe via a trusty old usr-teletype is something that happened in the late 70s.

    Gary
    http://www.domorewithsage.com