Gartner's 2010 Predictions - A must read for IT professionals

Gartner has come with it's 2010 predictions on IT trends for organizations and users. As an IT professionals I take these predictions seriously and try to make sense out of it. It helps us shape up our career goal and twist them as necessary. The report is an 8 page PDF that can be downloaded from Gartner's website after providing your own professional information and email. Here is my summarized versions:

1. 20% of businesses will not own any IT assets, This is a powerful prediction, basically Gartner is saying that IT asset management will go to outsourcing providers and businesses will adapt to cloud computing environment where there will be no need to own IT assets. This will eliminate need for expensive manpower needed to maintain those IT assets. Gartner is predicting hardware professionals will have tough time finding jobs in 2012 and beyond.
2. India based IT services providers will play major role in offering cloud based services offerings. Gartner is predicting that Indian IT service providers will invest in R&D on cloud based solutions to gain customer's confidence and trust. Businesses will be forced to separate their business processes and adapt strategies that give those individual processes competitive advantages. 
3. By 2012 facebook will be a hub for web socialization and no business will be able to ignore its potential for advertising, communication, marketing and client support.
4. Companies will be penalized for CO2 emissions. Just the way, Monitor and Television manufacturers recover the recycling costs from consumer before the life of product ends, IT vendors will add the CO2 emission costs to its product and services. Hence they will be forced to reduce and eliminate the emissions.
5. Internet marketing will be regulated by 2015. The "World Wild Web" for marketers and spammers will eventually force lawmakers and companies to regulate the way we see web today. Gartner predicts that companies that only exists on web for marketing will have tough time ahead.
6. More than 3 billion people will transact using mobile internet. This is probably most agreable prediction based on the rise of mobile use in emerging economies. This will open a floodgate of opportunities for Mobile operators, Internet companies and financial organization as mobile commerce will take over existing way of doing B2C.
7. Context aware computing will be HOT. In other words, location based services (LBS) offerings will generate huge opportunities. This signals that context providers like google, AT&T, Apple and social web such as Facebook will have advantage as they can contribute on context aware computing.

Let me know what you think of these predictions...