InfoWorld has a special report, summarising the past thus:
1979 – 1985: The Dawn of the PC – Personal computers meet the enterprise
1986 – 1995: The Networked Enterprise – LAN, Ethernet, Lotus Notes, Windows 95, and a connected workforce
1996 – 1999: The Internet Era – What a lovely bubble it was
2000 – 2003: The Age of (In)Security – Grappling with worms, viruses, and a devastating terrorist attack
It also looks ahead to the next 25 years:
– The path to pervasive computing
– Computers that mimic intelligence
– The invisible workforce: IT in the future
– After silicon: Biocomputing at work
