This presentation is an exploration of what Information Technology will look like in 2021. We have spread our predictions across three categories: IT Trends, IT Practice and Impacts on Everyday Life.

3. Key developments often occur at Nexus points – where trends merge together or when a critical realization is made…

4. Web Servers are one thing, Nuclear Reactors are a bit more dangerous – there are systems which absolutely must not FAIL. Predicting The Future

8. Web Servers are one thing, Nuclear Reactors are a bit more dangerous – there are systems which absolutely must not FAIL. Whether we like it or not, we’ve become a generation of IT Geeks – Internet Gaming, Facebook, Digital HD Television, Internet Telephony, iPads, Smartphones… Even imagining a lifestyle without IT is now becoming difficult.

10. Web Servers are one thing, Nuclear Reactors are a bit more dangerous – there are systems which absolutely must not FAIL. Predictions: IT Trends

11. Sometimes the destination is obvious – the result of a logical progression; other times we take unexpected turns. Prediction must account for ‘ the human factor .’

14. Web Servers are one thing, Nuclear Reactors are a bit more dangerous – there are systems which absolutely must not FAIL. Everything in Nature which appears to be solid & static is in fact flexible and dynamic…

17. Web Servers are one thing, Nuclear Reactors are a bit more dangerous – there are systems which absolutely must not FAIL. Consolidation & Standardization occurred with modern industrialization before the advent of IT – since then it continues to be reinvented on a regular basis.

20. Web Servers are one thing, Nuclear Reactors are a bit more dangerous – there are systems which absolutely must not FAIL. Why worry about evil supercomputers when there are so many unpleasant people we could worry about instead ?

22. Semantics is the Alpha & Omega Web Servers are one thing, Nuclear Reactors are a bit more dangerous – there are systems which absolutely must not FAIL.

24. Collaboration Makes Sense … Web Servers are one thing, Nuclear Reactors are a bit more dangerous – there are systems which absolutely must not FAIL.

25. Web Servers are one thing, Nuclear Reactors are a bit more dangerous – there are systems which absolutely must not FAIL. Predictions: IT Practice

27. IT Practice will always have new goals, targets and approaches. The key is solving today’s challenges so we can move to tomorrow’s…

29. Example of Integrated IT Practices

31. The Science of Cyber Attack

33. The Power to Learn

35. Web Servers are one thing, Nuclear Reactors are a bit more dangerous – there are systems which absolutely must not FAIL. Predictions: Everyday Impacts

37. Technology & Democracy Knowledge is made up of many building blocks , over the next 10 years an ever-growing portion of the human race will be contributing new blocks…

41. Defining Reality Reality is a shared conceptual perspective of the world around us. As we contribute new ideas to that perspective – reality changes …