2010: Decade of Intelligent Machines

It's happening - machines are running themselves. We've seen it in movies, now it's happening in real life. Predator aircraft, cars that park themselves, on-line credit approval. These are all examples of machine led operations that formerly required humans.

Applying Moore's Law or Kurzweil's Singularity, in the next decade we can expect gigantic advances in "intelligent machines". The entire IT department of today will start to look more like your data center - humming machines with a couple of employees hanging around to solve problems.

What does this mean to you today?

• Standards - both hardware and especially software need to be open standards compliant - not vendor driven. Many eyeballs will be the key to "safe" software.


• Decision Systems - In a 99% automated world, you will not have the time or breadth to analyze problems, you need the help of other automated systems.


• Outside Software - Decision problem solving software will need to be outside your main systems to avoid being compromised.


• Smarter Staff - IT departments will/should have fewer people, but they will have to be very smart & knowlegable to handle the complex systems.