IR is a lot more vibrant now than it was even ten years ago, and more so then than ten years before that.
Obviously, much of this is due to the web, but now social networking, e.g. Facebook and Twitter, are becoming more important.
How many of you use Twitter? Why or why not?
What will come after Twitter?
Areas come in and out of fashion. CLIR was hot for a while, and is now in decline, but will likely rise again. Virtual machines were hot, then cold for a long time, then hot, and now much hotter.
Who knows what's next? See http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html
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