earlier this month, gartner issued a press release containing key predictions for 2010 and later. you can read the entire article here . i captured the summaries so that we can all put it in a time capsule and open it later to see how accurate they were. :) by 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets. by 2012, india-centric IT services companies will represent 20 percent of the leading cloud aggregators in the market (through cloud service offerings). by 2012, facebook will become the hub for social network integration and web socialization. by 2014, most IT business cases will include carbon remediation costs. by 2012, 60 percent of a new pc’s total life greenhouse gas emissions will have occurred before the user first turns the machine on. internet marketing will be regulated by 2015, controlling more than $250 billion in internet marketing spending worldwide. by 2014, over 3 billion of the world’s adult population will be a
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