I've been in this business for 35 years.
I remember when 10mbs Ethernet was infinity, if it's not watercooled it's a terminal, why disrupt everything over TCP/IP when SNA works just fine. etc.
And those were reasonings I held, not just something I heard.
Hell, everyone knows Netscape is better than Explorer, right? Novell's NDS outclassed Active Directory by many magnitudes.
I have a lot more respect for such predictions now days as I've been on the wrong, naysaying side of every major change in technology over the last 35years.
Haven't you?
I’ve been in IT for 20 years myself, and I agree with your assessment. I remember wiring my first fiber bundle between two office buildings and thinking, “My God, it’ll never get faster than this.” And then it did.
The speed things are going, I wouldn’t be surprised if every human being is granted an IPv6 address and a NAT device when their born for all of their electronic needs. Hell, in 25 years, they’ll be talking about how IPv6 is almost exhausted and we need to go to IPvX with a 512-bit addressing scheme (shudders).