Dan Farber does a terrific piece of future gazing which had me both nodding in agreement and amused at the possibilities. I extended the last sentence:
As we know now, Microsoft and Google eventually merged, forming the trillion dollar Goosoft, which hosts and provides on demand services covering 80 percent of global Internet usage.
with:
We can now trace many of the the current enterprise application offerings back to ideas and events occurring in 2006. Following a bitter three year battle, in 2010 SAP eventually devoured Oracle to become SPRAwL. The company automates pretty much anything and everything these days, a process that started with the release of S14.2.0 in 2012. This version was the first to use IIC (Implanted Internet Connect) devices, a technology that drew heavily on what was at the time new generation RFID technology jointly developed by NASA, IBM and Accenture.
While there was not a lot of public chatter at the time, nano-technology was being aggressively co-developed by computer scientists at Stanford in the US and Cambridge in the UK during 2006. Today of course, IIC is mainstream and new born babies have IIC devices routinely inserted near the frontal lobe. These devices run on fuel efficient cells that are charged by neurons fired off in the brain. So efficient is this form of energy that cell replacement is not required for at least 50 years. This work has its roots in pioneering hydrogen fuel cell technology being developed in 2006 by Ovonic but which received little attention at the time.
It seems strange looking back but in 2006 laptop makers like Dell, IBM and Apple were struggling with provisioning reliable batteries. What we could not know in 2006 but do today is that holography would deliver UVM (Ultimate Virtual Machine), thus dispensing with the need for physical devices in the workplace. It’s interesting to recall the idea was sparked by a three man startup at one of the many BarCamp events held in 2006. They were inspired by holographic imaging technology after seeing the then popular TV series, Bones.
SPRAwL is now delivered as part of a series of tailored packages offered by Verizon, Vodafone and Orange, the global communications masters. These packages provide menu choices based on your geo-location, language preference and position within both society and the companies for whom you work. Again, this has its roots in 2006 when SaaS providers like Salesforce.com (acquired by SAP in 2008) and NetSuite (acquired by Oracle in 2007) were tentatively seeking to extend their reach through ISP partnering arrangements.
Today, Goosoft OS v.27.3 provides an always-on, ‘liquid’ interface that includes voice activated and bio-recognition protected single, global signon. Technology it picked up from Sxip which in 2006 was endeavouring to become the standard for identity management through its relationship with SFdC. This is delivered from a network ‘grid’ of orbiting satellites predated by the network of surplus oil tankers Google (as it was known in 2006) was secretly acquiring for offshore network building experiments around the coasts of South America and Japan.
Integration remains the one issue that still proves intractable. Many attempts were made to overcome the problem. Who then could have predicted that a company run by an ex-SAP executive would emerge as the global leader in providing the ‘glue’ for user assembled applications? That company? Boolan Inc.
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