Que Sera, Sera: The Coincidental Confluence of Economics, Business, and Collaborative Computing

Summary form only given. This presentation is an exploration of the next generation computing based on the confluence of radical and coincidental changes in economics, business, and technology. Whereas technology is a key enabler of change, it is and is the servant, not the master. Without a depth of understanding of this enabling role and the content in which technology serves, technology can be misguided and its developers can lose perspective. This presentation outlines a proposal made to the US President??s Office of Science and Technology for technology research for the next decade, which calls for new computational models, operating systems, data models, and infrastructure, amongst others, to support the next generation of computing, collaborative computing. This provides an opportunity to reconsider the role of data in computing. This is only one view.