SOA filling the Gaps

Nobody is able to predict accurately. IT is less predictable than other industries because it is a"moving target".  My "Vendors Survival" posts titled: Vendors Survival: will X survive until y (ten years from the year the post was written)? X is a large IT vendor such as Google , Apple , Facebook , Microsoft , IBM . HP etc., could be wrong. Actually I wrote explicitly that my predictions could be wrong. Even predictions for the next year could be wrong. Even leading analysts firms predictions could be wrong. Based on this idea I wrote a post titled: Gartner's 2015 Strategic Predictions: Trivial, Over Estimated and Interesting . Gartner's prediction about IOT as a Strategic Technology was included in the Interesting group i.e predictions that are not trivial and I believe will be important few years after the prediction.  In 2017 it seems that Gartner's IOT Prediction was not a wrong prediction. There are plenty of Things which are Internet entiti...