In this month's CACM, there's a short piece highlighting the "
seven IT grand challenges that, if met, will have a profound economic, scientific, and societal impacts" according to Gartner.
- manual recharge of wireless devices
- parallel programming
- non-tactile, natural computing interfaces
- speech translation
- reliable long-term digital storage
- increase programmer productivity by 100-fold [CAMC got this wrong, they said "100%"]
- identify the financial consequences of IT investments
My knee-jerk reactions are:
- 2 and 4 definitely.
- 1 and 3 and 6 maybe.
- 5 is a good problem to solve, yeah, but I'm not sure if it meets what I think of as Grand.
- 7 is probably not on the right list. How is this different from, say, understanding where my marketing dollars go?
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