"In the PC era, the winners were companies that dominated the microcosm of the silicon chip. The new age of petacomputing will be ruled by the masters of the remote data center–those who optimally manage processing power, electricity, bandwidth, storage, and location. They will leverage the Net to provide not only search, but also the panoply of applications formerly housed on the desktop."
--George Gilder, The Information Factories," Wired, October 2006, p.181.
George Gilder is Editor in Chief of the Gilder Technology Report.

"The future belongs to organizations skilled in providing solutions for the desktop-computing environment, the database infrastructure and the network infrastructure."
--James Martin, PC Week, May 14, 1990, p.74.
James Martin is the author of, or contributor to, more than 100 books on computing and society including The Wired Society and An Information Systems Manifesto. After the Internet: Alien Intelligence, published in November 2000, forecast discontinuous leaps in computer intelligence and the changes and opportunities they may generate in global societies.

"... today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature."
--Michio Kaku, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century, Anchor Books, 1998, p.5.
Michio Kaku is Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York.