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Are all these down votes signifying disagreement with Gartner's (admittedly boring) predictions? I don't get it. Sometimes I think people vote things based on whether they agree or disagree, rather than whether the topic or content has significance. This Gartner report will have a LOT of significance to the pointy-hared bosses most of us work for, so IMO it is worthwhile for us to be aware.

I voted it down because the actual blog post added no value to the predictions (IMO).

I've update my resume to include ubiquitous and contextual programmer. I'm ready for the pointyhaired ones now.

And don't forget:
1. The transistor chip
2. Multi core processors
3. The internet
4. HTTP/HTML
5. Object Oriented Programming languages
6. Dynamic functional languages
7. Digital music/video formats
8. Flash memory
9. Wireless Networking
10. And a sophisticated heat beam which I like to call "Laser"

I think the downvotes are due to two things: they are "admittedly boring" and there's no explanation. If this list had been made two three years ago it would have been interesting. All they can say is "multicore processors"? Wow, my two year old could come up with that one.

Wow, You're two your old is really advanced, my 4 year old is still stuck at single core multi processor hardware and doesn't see the need for more than 1 core and has concerns (obviously self interested) about multi core programming being too difficult a paradigm for 4-8 year olds. In kindergarten we'll work on Erlang and maybe he'll catch on.