mrcgran notes an essay in The Economist with three technology predictions for 2008. Normally they’re pretty good on technology, and the predictions seem sound abundant, but the spread contains a couple of bloopers. “1. Surfing will slow: The Web is not about to grind to a halt, but as more and more users clamber aboard to download music, video clips and games… surfing the web is going to be more like traveling the highways at holiday duration. You’ll get there, eventually, but the going won’t be great. 2. Surfing will detach: World Wide Web will doubtless be as popular among mobile-internet surfers as among their sedentary cousins. 3.

Surfing — and everything else computer-related — will open: Rejoice: the embrace of ‘openness’ by firms that have grown fat on closed, proprietary technology is something we’ll see more of in 2008… Since the verdict against SCO, Linux has swiftly become popular in small businesses and the home, largely the doing of Ubuntu 7.10. And considering it is free, Linux become the operating system of choice for low-end PCs. Neither Microsoft nor Apple can compete at the new price points being plumbed by companies looking to cut costs.”

Read more of that story at Slashdot.

Orginal post by kdawson