There are some technologies which people would LIKE to happen, but will never actually happen. Here are some typical tell-tale over-optimistic phrases.
- people having conferences about a technology which hasn’t actually happened yet
- Eventually, cloud computing will
- Looking into the future
- Constant sense that success is just around the corner
- Semantic Web
- Web Services
- Ambient Intelligence
- The Internet of Things
- Grid Computing
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Federated Identity
- IPV6
- eBook readers
- Speech recognition
- Portable social networks
- SaaS
What did happen
- The web and web 2.0
- Social Networking