10 Technologies In 10 Years
The pace of change in the technology sector is staggering. In the late 1990s, Windows-based terminals were poised to replace the desktop PC and usher in the return of the client-server model. Instead they've all but disappeared, giving way to zero-client monitors and virtualized operating systems.
In 1999, IBM's Watson Center for research was developing a wearable PC, PDA-based CRM and copper processors. Now a computer named Watson can outplay human quiz show champions.
In 2000, hard drive storage cost about $1 per megabyte. Today, a nickel gets you a thousand times as much. In that same year, AOL and Time Warner became one, Microsoft was ordered to become two, and the technology bubble brought on by the Internet was beginning to burst at the seams.
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