4 tech predictions for 2009
You can't really blame technology executives and pundits for not wanting to go too far out on a limb in making prognostications and predictions about 2009.
The world tech companies will operate in will be pretty awful, but no one knows just how bad things will get: The global nature of the recession - and the dollars, euros and yuan governments are pumping into their local markets - simply is without precedent.
And it isn't like Internet or even computing companies have a lot of experience with these sort of things: Economists argue that the world hasn't seen a financial crisis this severe since the Great Depression, and back then, the only "tech" companies were making tabulating machines or selling phone lines.
