PersInfo-DOS in the Sky

I was having lunch last week with a film director working in the entertainment and the advertising business. It was an interesting and wide ranging chat. One of the things we discussed that stuck in my mind was the thought that future web and mobile apps might behave more like TV shows than traditional software applications.

I've watched my kids go from Atari to C64 to Doom to Facebook over the past years. And who knows what social app will be their "go to app" in three years. This has always been the case in videogames. FarmVille to Cityville to something else. This journey from nothing to everything to nothing again is also true at some level with many tech companies. Digital Equipment Corporation was founded in 1957 and closed in 1998. RIM was founded in 1984 and in all liklihood will be gone before the end of this decade. Same with Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Nokia and many more tech companies.

perbit dagegen wird weiter wachsen, wie damals, vor langer Zeit, in 1983.