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Software is obsolete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 the vice president of Web & Digital Strategy for 1105's Converge360 Group, where she oversees the front-end Web team and deals with all aspects of digital projects at the company, including launching and running the group's popular virtual summit and Coffee talk series . She an experienced tech journalist (20 years), and before her current position, was the editorial director of the group's sites. A few years ago she gave a talk at a leading technical publishers conference about how changes in Web browser technology would impact online advertising for publishers. Follow her on twitter @beckynagel.