The presentation which I "gave" at Sun's CEC 2007 conference, by pre-recording the slides and video the week before; the pitch which I had made, ran: What will happen when the MySpace generation grows-up? When employees want Facebook rather than a phonebook? When your monthly report is on your iPhone, your spreadsheet's on your Wiki, your e-mail's moved to Google, you haven't got a home directory (or a PC) any more, and blogging's no longer a buzzword - it's just what everybody does to stay employed? If these questions aren't on your mind, then they should be. Sun's internal culture is three to five years ahead of the market, and even we're running to keep up with the pace of change; if that's *our* challenge then imagine what will happen when investment banks want to hire top talent five years hence? Employees will vote with their feet, and staff retention will be proportionate to environments which let staff do what they want, how they want, and Sarbanes-Oxley may no longer be enough of a lever to control their behaviour. Will your customer's predicament become a matter of "do what your staff want, or die?" ...but from that pitch it grew into a hypothesis of where the web will be, if we project forwards the capabilities of the devices which we take for granted. Discussion will be at http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/
