Mrcgran notes an article in The Economist with three mechanization predictions for 2008. typically
antonyms:  abnormally they're pretty good on technology, and the predictions seem sound enough, but the article contains a couple of bloopers. "1. Surfing will slow: The network superhighway is not about to grind to a halt, but as more and more users clamber aboard to initialize music, video clips and games... surfing the web is going to be more like knight of the road the highways at holiday time. You'll get there, eventually, but the going won't be great. 2. Surfing will detach: national lowdown* infrastructure 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 technical knowledge is commodity 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 because it is free, Linux become the business expenses expenses expenses 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."

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