Email? - Here to stay and more useful to business than to my Aunt Millie.
Websites? - Information is good and necessary. Networking sites have limited applicability - they are not the answer to all information=sharing needs.
Datacenters? - Cloud processing is not the answer to all computing requirements. There are and will always be issue of security and availability. If my business survival depends on my IT, I want that IT under my control - not some company which could be bought out, merged or bankrupt.
Land Lines? - Cellphone coverage is not universal and may never be.
PC? - There is a growing shift to thin clients, but this seems to run is cycles - we've been thru this before.
Traditional Data Processing? -
"Much of the [IT] history of the last 20 years has involved replacing what workd with what sounded good."
Of the proportion of BUSINESS data that is digitized, the overwhelming majority still sits on mainframes. That is not going away anytime soon - and IBM & the business world just woke up to that fact and are making a big push to get mainframe training back into the educational process as it used to be.
IBM mainframes morph thru succeeding generations, but I expect to see them around 30 years from now (assuming I's still around then).
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