DavsDisorder

Well, with a tip of the hat to old Ernest, it is with some degree of relief we farewell a turbulent and bloody year. We look forward to a more peaceful and prosperous 2010. Me and the boys have just had our last 'meeting' for the making sure all is in order for next weeks start to 2010 and as a coda to that meeting we compiled very hastily a list of the 10 most influential and impactful technologies/products to have held sway throughout the past decade. We mainly focused on stuff in the realm of 'technology' (whatever that means) in the consumer and business space...we left rocket science out of the equation. Well here it is...please feel free to comment on them and remember they are in no particular order:

1. Google's Search Engine (no explanation needed)
2. Wired & Wireless, Broadly Available, High Speed Internet Access (hard to overestimate this, and its all thanks to bullish business overestimation boom & bust)
3. Apple's iPhone (the crowning glory of a decade of mobile telephony innovation...the social impact of mobile phones is vast and worthy of further study)
4. Peer 2 Peer Networking Technology (free music...legal disputes)
5. YouTube (collective therapy for failed ambitions of all kinds...and cats doing funny things)
6. Social Networking (think twice before you post...the end of syndicated journalism?)
7. Digital Cameras (read, digital phone cameras as above...massive social data creation...most recorded decade in human history)
8. Computer Virtualisation (read VMware's ESX technology...amongst other lesser candidates...impact still being felt...VMware fastest growing software in history - 2008)
9. Global Positioning Systems (GPS) (warfare is remote controlled...couples stop fighting in cars...big brother knows where you are..cf.#3)
10. Malware (whilst not a technology per se...represents the single biggest threat {alongside dwindling power supplyy} to our connected world)