>>>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.
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>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.

As one who logged enough airtime on acid in the 70s to get frequent flyer miles I cannot wait for VR headsets, AI speech recognition, holographics and Smell-o-vision if I can get it. All consumer products will go in this direction and I can see many business applications - especially those used in environments with a user base that grows up with this technology. Certainly the office of 10-20 years from now will look a lot different - but of course the idea of "office" will change as well. I don't see physically moving to a workplace every day as having much staying power for many many professions. ( I'm sure many of us are remoting all the time now)

I welcome it all. Brain damage is the least of my fears. I just want to go out like Huxley.