i just got back from the agenda conference. an interesting experience. scottsdale arizona is a strange place.agenda is a conference for the pc industry. it's not a web conference. on the other hand - the web (and the internet in general) permeated every aspect of agenda. most of the speakers were from "web companies" - and those that were not either talked about what they were doing in relation to the net or had to defend what they were not doing.
i would have predicted that this would have been a great chance for me to gloat. and i did get a fair amount of "i told you so" practice in. but in the end the feeling i came away with was dread. the pc industry is not the web industry. i know few people who work on the web who want to be dealing with the social, political or lifestyle problems that being a worker bee for the pc industry entails. on the other hand, i have to say that the pc industry is dominated by companies and people who truly show up the web industry types as the novices they are. companies like oracle or microsoft (and now netscape) have a very different take on the world, the web, and business. they take it all very seriously.
so here's my fear: that the web, as an industry in and of itself, is going to get sucked into the existing pc and IS industries. it will not be what it once was.
get ready.
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