Discussion Questions and Projects

1.	It has been stated that the ability to create a computer model of a virus is a consequence of the 1010 increase in computer hardware performance plus the 1010 increase in computational chemistry algorithm development over the past 50 years. Can you find an analogue to this situation in business data processing?
2.	Computer people are notorious for predicting the future of their discipline. What do you think the software industry will look like in five years? In 10 years? How do you expect to be involved personally?