Are you a web techie? A take on your future

My friend Mark sent me this video, one of the keynotes from Future Of Web Apps Expo 2008. The speaker is Tim Bray, cofounder of OpenText and currently Director of Web Technologies at Sun.

Tim states some blunt and thought-provoking things about the web industry’s future. Some examples:

• The waterfall method is dead
• Enterprise software licensing models will die. Long live open source
• Big opportunities will appear in  technologies catering to regulation enforcement, basic needs and servicing legacy applications
• Stop trying to figure out what people want. Build something that YOU want
• Run away from venture capitalists
• Don’t be a one-trick pony. Expand to more than one progamming language or platform; don’t bash the others

There is a lot of common sense there too. But even if you don’t agree with everything, the video is definitely worth a watch.