http://www.fogofeternity.com/2009/05/failing-to-predict-the-power-of-the-web/ we make great websites Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:59:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.fogofeternity.com/2009/05/failing-to-predict-the-power-of-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-13116 Ben Morris Thu, 28 May 2009 14:50:44 +0000 http://www.fogofeternity.com/?p=550#comment-13116 Technology is verrrry difficult to predict - I always end up calling it completely wrong. When I first started back in '93 [gets out pipe and slippers] anybody with a personal email address was regarded as exotic and the web was a novelty that would never catch on... I also remember being warned that developers would be obsolete within a decade, the idea being that computer languages would become so simple that we just wouldn't need nerds anymore... Technology is verrrry difficult to predict – I always end up calling it completely wrong. When I first started back in ‘93 [gets out pipe and slippers] anybody with a personal email address was regarded as exotic and the web was a novelty that would never catch on… I also remember being warned that developers would be obsolete within a decade, the idea being that computer languages would become so simple that we just wouldn’t need nerds anymore…

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