What's in a name?

Many years ago, when I first entered the world of work, the part of my company that dealt with computer based information was called Data Processing - DP. From its punch-card and green-stripe beginnings, the technology environment evolved faster than anybody would dare imagine. Data Processing became Computing, then became Information Technology - IT. With the increasingly more sophisticated combining of voice and data, IT became Information and Communication Technologies – ICT. Now we add all manner of on-line business and social media into the mix and today's terminology for this all-encompassing environment is TMT – Technology, Media and Telecoms.  I wonder, where next for those two- and three-letter-acronyms?

16th Jan 2011