Below is an advertisement for the IBM System/360 mainframe computer from the 1960s. What is remarkable about the ad is the language we see used in it. For example, “You can easily increase the size of System/360 when your business grows or you want to add new applications.“ If you’ve
Although it’s impossible to predict the future with certainty, we can estimate what may happen over the next few years based on information currently available. A method for doing so involves looking at the overlap in viewpoints from interested parties, specifically: Resistors say that AI will replace jobs, and this
If you’re in the software industry, you’re probably well aware of how difficult the current job market (as of May 2025) is for technology workers of all skill levels. The chart below displays this, as it shows the number of software development job openings over the past five years –
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Application Developers and Software Engineers most often work with high-level programming languages designed to make it easy for humans to write instructions for machines. Consider the following example: if (apple.isRotten()) { apple.dispose();} Even without any training in computer programming, the average person should be able to figure out that the
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The diagram below is from 1978. What’s remarkable about it is that, at a base level, it describes an information systems architecture that is commonly seen in enterprises in the year 2025: Starting with the top layer (DBMS or Database Management System) – in modern enterprises we have a corresponding
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