Sep 07

What is the next big thing?

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I spent a good part of the day a couple of weeks ago at a local event where various companies such as Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, etc. talk about what they are up to and what they will be releasing in the next few months.   It doesn’t seem that there is any next big thing on the horizon that we can get excited about.   Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of cool little things, but no OMG moments.

What is a big thing?  I remember back to windows 1.0 (I AM the old geek) and how that was an OMG moment.   I even remember the first Mac and how that was an OMG moment.  Windows 95 had that feeling after running 3.1 all of those years.  And how about Cello after all of the time spent in gopher?

We really don’t have any next big technology market turning events on the horizon.   I don’t think it is the economy, but everyone likes to blame anything negative on it’s state.

later,
matt

2 Responses to “What is the next big thing?”

  1. Eric K Says:
    September 29th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Matt,

    Tomorrow is the big “Google Wave” day. Do you think it has a chance? I watched the dog and pony video the other day and thought with a little tweeking and some extensions it looks like a good business collab tool.

    Just curious.

    Eric

  2. matt Says:
    September 30th, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    Eric,

    Google Wave sounds like it will be a great collaboration tool. Most folks say that if you understand that it is a collaboration tool, you will understand it :)

    I hope to get an invite to try it out.

    Later,
    matt