>>I just don't think the IT world as it is now is in danger of disappearing. it will just expand. Admittedly, some of the most interesting and exciting opportunities will be in the new technologies and the languages and platforms that best support them.

We've been waiting ages for speech-to-text: once Siri is a realtime proposition, people will hurl their keyboards under the stairs with the golfball typewriters. The other challenge is screen size. Did you see Google's spectacles with a large HUD screen? Getting very close. As I've said for a decade, solve these two and the displacement will be as quick as the original Windows explosion. The holdouts will be large corporates (think banks with Cobol) and those who perceive risk from constant online irradiation. I'm one of the latter, btw: where you can, lay cable.