Quote from aphexcoil:
What is really amazing is the fact that the technology age of man is only just getting started. Where we are today with computer technology is only still in its infancy.
I envision a world within the next 100 years where everything is completely connected to everything else. PDA's, cellphones, etc -- all combining into some permanetely attached thing to every person who will be able to contact any other person at any time.
Transportation (flying) will be needed less often as holographic technology creates "virtual" meeting rooms where people can conduct business. A man in Chicago will be able to sit down at a table where a holographic man from New York and one from Tokyo are also sitting.
Personal entertainment will also reach new levels. Virtual worlds will be available for people, who can slip on goggles that recreate, with perfect clarity, any world they wish to explore.
Personal storage in computers will reach into the terabyte drives by 2004, and by 2015 personal storage will be measured in petabytes.
Processing speeds will continue to increase exponentially until the physical limits of silicon data-processing are reached. However, advances in quantum computing will continue with major breakthroughs that will allow true quantum computers by 2040.
So in the small narrow-look at the IT sector now, many people might think that tech is hurting or over-valued, but in the long run, technology will be the only sector worth investing in -- especially when robots completely replace human labor and push us into a neo-capitalistic / socialistic society where all people enjoy whatever it is they want -- either by true worth or holographic recreations of whatever it is they want to own or experience.