It’s that time of the year again. That time when we humans like to celebrate the annual revolution of our arbitrary measure of chronological quantities and units known as time. Or to put it another way, it’s that time of the year for 2014 predictions, postulations and hypothesizing on the state of the road ahead.
The very easiest and possibly most certain prediction we can make for technology as we head into 2014 is that we are precisely five years away from the next major paradigm shift in IT, as compared to where we stand today. Paradigm platform shifts come around just about every five years – you can count on it.