Brave new technologies revisited

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Feb 20, 20081 min

In last year’s 12 crackpot technologies we looked at a dozen ideas that teeter between brilliantly disruptive and utterly useless.

Desktop apps, solid-state drives and ultramobile laptops have all made enterprise inroads, while others faded into obscurity.

Now, we revisit the notion with a fistful of new technologies that may, or may not, last.

“Some of this year’s out-there technologies may prove fruit for future high-profile tech flops lists.” Crackpot technologies that could shakeup IT. “But without forward-thinking, there would be no worthwhile enterprise advancement.”