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Executive Interview: IBM's Stuart Feldman On Grid Computing: Page 3 of 4

If you are thinking about how to make organizations more responsive, you need to be thinking about on-demand structure. When you do this, you realize IT implementation is in terms of services.

IT Utility Pipeline: What will be the hot topics at the conference this year?

Feldman: The semantic Web and issues about how humans interact with the Web, the interfaces, and accessibility. How do we make a best case for far too much information? Also the implementation of mobility and how you get at infrastructure and data services with the networks changing.

We'll also be talking about the proliferation of the Web. Currently five to ten percent of the population uses the Web. But those numbers will change considerable as the cost to access networks decreases. We will see a wild proliferation with 50 percent using the Web in the next 10 years. Fifty percent is the no brainer. The last fifty percent will be hard where people are in remote villages.

IT Utility Pipeline: You have been there since the beginning. Did you think the Web would be where it is today, 10 years ago?