We'll use computers
Bruce Eckel's MindView, Inc: 6-12-03 The Computer Job Economy
Finally there's the web itself. I've gotten a number of suggestions that I try to use the web as if it were a TV broadcasting station. In one of Robert Cringely's columns he calls streaming media "a joke," and most of my experiences with it have supported this evaluation (for example, I gave a presentation to a conference in India via a dedicated 4-ISDN AV studio, and we had no end of trouble. The average connection is far worse than what we were using).
Bruce Eckel discussing future IT employment prospects, the upshot being that things are bad but not as bad as you think and probably still tending towards growth. That aside, what struck me about this passage as I read it was what a change it was from the hype I see on most weblogs these days. It's not the usual overblown extreme rhetoric; it's a professional making levelheaded evaluations of a technology based on practical experience. It was good to be reminded that sort of thing does still actually happen in this business. I for one am rapidly approaching the point where I never want to hear "RSS" again.