Things I’m thinking about:
- Email spam.
- Viruses, worms, trojans.
- Security attacks.
- Complex software becomes more vulnerable.
- Increasing complexity.
- User skills don’t increase much if at all.
- The ongoing death of the Macintosh.
- Usability taking a back seat to marketing.
- Open source failing to “take hold” (Europe).
- Failure of judgments against Microsoft to have any affect.
- Continuing support of legacy crap.
- Failure to convert to paperless.
- Systems are too complex for a single person to understand.
- Single source that runs on all OSs — OSs should be designed to support applications, not the reverse.
- Copyright restrictions.
- Patent crisis.
- More and more reliance on computer systems, especially personal computers.