He&#x27;s more interested in being exciting and controversial than being accurate. However, it&#x27;s not a bad broad-brush picture if you don&#x27;t look to hard at the details.<p>The thing is, it really is hard to predict the future. For example, when the microprocessor appeared, we all said Wow, we can all have a PC! And the mainframe is dead.<p>I don&#x27;t think anybody said we&#x27;d be papering the world with giant server farms based on microprocessors, or that most of the Fortune 500 would still be running on mainframes 40 years later.