In-Depth

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• Software is obsolete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