A NEW TECH CYCLE - CHANGING OUR WORLD
I suppose what I am really excited about - ( notwithstanding the doom-mongers of Global Warming, un-payable National debt, Euro-zone contagion, GM food and England’s prospects in the World Cup amongst other paranoia permeating and eating away at the soul of our society !! ) - is the fact that we have entered the next Tech Cycle. Amidst the threat of a double dip recession, oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico and Greek unrest who cares about the next Tech Cycle – the next Dot Bomb ? You may well ask ! The fact is that there have been four Tech cycles in the last 50 years and each one has been bigger and better than the preceding one. Let's remind ourselves of what they were : 1. The mainframe computing cycle started in the 60’s with the main players being IBM, NCR, Sperry ; then followed 2. The mini-computing cycle in the 70’s with the major companies being Digital Equipment, HP and Wang and then; 3. The PC era of the 80’s/90’s where we saw the rise ...