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The extent to which IT is bound up with everything we do has been well illustrated through Y2K.

I assume of course that the world will continue to exist post Y2K, and that technology as we know it will not have collapsed due to the lack of a couple of digits.

We assume too that Nostradamus is wrong, and that the world will not end this summer, as a recent cover of Time magazine suggested. I assume Time meant the northern summer, which for us would mean any day now. In any case, it hasn’t ended today (pause) yet.

Despite the fact that Nostradamus’s prophetic record is about as accurate as most economists, I’d like to indulge in a bit of future prediction of my own. We’ll come back to the role of Government later.

There are a couple of things about the future of IT that we can be fairly certain about.