I was shaken briefly a few weekends ago by an ominous question posed in the Business section the Sunday New York Times. “Are the Glory Days Long Gone for I.T.?” read the headline over a story quoting former Oracle exec Thomas M. Siebel warning, “the promise of the post-industrial society has been realized.”
Randall Stross, author of the article, kept a cooler head than his headline writer. Inside his article I found that he balanced Siebel’s doomsday prediction with less gloom from a number of other experts. Stanford economist Timothy Bresnahan, for example, says, “It is early days to say the game is over.” Read the rest of this entry »
