The State of Technology According to Google Auto-Fill -- ADTmag

The State of Technology According to Google Auto-Fill

What does the first entry of Google's auto-fill feature say about various technologies? For some reason we recently decided to find out.

By Becky Nagel
April 28, 2011

All results gathered across a few random nights in March and April 2011. Your results may vary.

Cloud Computing is bullsh*it
Virtualization is the future
Parallel computing is the future
Parallel programming is hard
Agile is dead
Scrum is not enough
Disaster recovery is important
Thin clients are in again
VOIP is free
Hacking is easy
Software is obsolete
Databases are obsolete
Servers are down
Browsers are slow
Ports are open
Open source is better
Freeware is free
APIs are forever
Middleware is everywhere
Tablets are stupid
Desktops are dying
Smart phones are expensive
Mobile computing is useful only in professions
Laptops are cooking peoples (sic)
Mainframes are used
Cabling is intact
Wireless is slow
IPV4 is gone
IPV6 is installed
Coding is fun
Programming is hard
Scripting is not programming
Network architecture is the design
Big data is less about size
Interoperability is important
Video conferencing is green
Data centers are becoming big polluters
DRM is evil
File sharing is good
Web 2.0 is bullsh*t
3G is so slow
4G is a myth
SEO is dead
HTML 5 is dead
CSS is awesome
CSS 3 is not HTML 5
Social media is not
IT jobs are boring
Software testing is boring
Game development is thirsty work
Tech support is not the answer

About the Author

Becky Nagel is vice president of AI for 1105 Media, where she specializes in training internal and external customers on maximizing their business potential via a wide variety of generative AI technologies as well as developing cutting-edge AI content and events. She's the author of "ChatGPT Prompt 101 Guide for Business Uses," regularly leads research studies on generative AI business usage, and serves as the director of AI Boardroom, a new resource for C-level executives looking to excel in the AI era. Prior to her current position she was a technical leader for 1105 Media's Web, advertising and production teams as well as editorial director for a suite of enterprise technology publications, including serving as founding editor of PureAI.com. She has 20 years of enterprise technology journalism experience, and regularly speaks and writes about generative AI, AI, edge computing and other cutting-edge technologies. She can be reached at [email protected].