The future of IT field

[Mr. Henry Chan]

I am an IT freshman. Would like to ask those expertise all over the world about the opinion on this field. Hoping to have your sharing so as to lighting my way of achievement. Thanks in advance.

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

As long as we are able to keep socialists from ruining business, then IT will be around for quite a while. Yet, if we allow the socialists to continue their "globalization", like "the world court", or the "world health org", then we might as well revert back to caveman days! That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

live free or die
harry

[Michael Tully]

I believe IT will be around for many a long year. There is so much happening, so much new technology, it sometimes is difficult to keep up with it all.
Of course we can't point in which direction is best for you but I don't see too many other industries quite like ours.

[S.K. Chan]

IT itself is such a broad field. If you just want to consider "IT" itself in general then I would think you're in the right career path as long as you keep abreast with the current technology and trend. It is also important to not confine yourself to a subset of IT skill but rather a few different skills. For example a programmer with sysadmin skill, a network engineer who knows Java programming, etc. Life itself is a never ending learning experience so does your career in IT.

[kish_1]

IT never die, keep learning and share the knowledge.. you also never leave IT

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

As Human Computer Interfacing (HCI) improves tremendously over the years, if I am to let my imaginations fly, I would see the developments progressing in the following areas:

1) Personal Computing

Your PCs may be packaged as babes with celluloid skin. In short, computers will evolve into interactive humanoids.

2) Mobile Computing

These humanoids follow you around.

3) Programming

No need to learn about programming or scripting. Just ask the humanoid to do it for you.

Thus, I think in future, management, communications and creative-thinking skills will end up being the most important skillsets to have. With such skills, you can relate to the humanoid so that it can implement your "user requirements" to exactness.

Perhaps, one can simply form a graphical image in your mind and you can wscp ("wireless" scp) to the humanoid and he will thus be able to interpret exactly what you want.

Therefore in my opinion, no more need for programmers in future, only managers, communicators and creative-thinkers are needed.

My far-fetched 2 cents. Maybe too much sci-fi.

On a more serious note, I think IT is here to stay. In fact, it has infiltrated into so many parts of our life that almost every discipline now requires some knowledge of IT (e.g. msword, powerpoint). IT has been slowly evolving into an integral component of our lifes.

As a result, my personal opinion is that it is good investment to take up multiple (usually 2) disciplines (e.g. MBA & IT or Life Sciences & IT or Financial Engineering & IT). The market is in need of people who understand the business well enough to implement business rules through IT correctly and effectively.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Mr. Henry Chan]

Thanks for all your valuable opinion. In fact, I do believe that IT will be integrated into our life closely. We cannot stop walking but keeping learning and create the new idea so as to make the world change.

However, when I look at myself who is seat inside the computer room, with a lot of server and console around me, and a pile and pile of user guide and command manual .... Its seems very far away for me to achieve or break thru the routine job. Anyway, I won't give up! Thanks for all your valuable words and opinion.

regards,
Fresh Henry

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Mr Henry

This also makes a nice reading :

http://www.fcc.gov/Speeches/Hundt/spreh742.html


I would love to paste the whole of it but it will be better if u go to the site to read it .

Ofcourse IT will stay as along as human race is there


Manoj Srivastava

[Fragon]

Hi there, always keep yourself an expert on certain field!

[Seun Ewulomi_1]

Hi,

The world is run with a flow of information. As long as information flow is very important(which it is in all businesses regardless). IT is and will be a necessity and will be here to stay

regards,
gab

[Yogeeraj_1]

IT's everywhere!

Hi,

It is touching every part of our life today.

You have software, hardware, automation and the list continues....

Soon, you will see everyone talking about it - in every part of the world.

Best Regards
Yogeeraj

[Chris Wilshaw]

Another thing that you constantly find - users will always find a reason to complain about the state/performance/shape/size/colour of the IT elementsinvolved in their job.

Just take a look at their faces when you suggest that they should try to get through a days work without it though.

Of late, people have been blaming technology companies of being one of the main causes of the stock market troubles throughout the world, at the same time, forgetting that it's IT that's allowing them to play around with all this money that they don't really have, that it's IT that to some degree controls almost every aspect of their lives (alarm clocks, vehicles, credit cards etc.)

IT is just the latest version of the industrial revolution (they said that the technology back then wouldn't last, but it has - it's just become more sophisticated).

[Nick Wickens]

Where abouts is IT field ?? - In the UK we have had a huge problem with the Local authorities selling our childrens playing fields for housing developments (usually following the distribution of brown paper bags full of loose change).

So I guess the answer is that the IT field will be good until the authorities start to regulate it.

Over the last 15 years we have seen more and more bored (boring ?) accountants and auditors muscling in on our action and trying to regulate us and impose unrealistic budgets. I think this is similar to the Monty Python chartered accountant who wants to be a lion tamer because he regards accountency as deadly dull.

Unless we stand up to these pretenders to the crown then I predict that they will be the main contributers to the fall of civilisation -

Just pick any service in the world and consider how good the service was 20 years ago with how it is today and the reason will always be accountants with unrealistic budgets or auditors imposing so many regulations that the function becomes un-economic (according to their evil partners the accountants). The same is going to happen with IT !

And you try telling the kids of today that and they won't believe you !!.