I remember reading an article back in 2011, a puff piece about IBM in the Economist for the company's 100th birthday: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2011/06

I remember reading an article back in 2011, a puff piece about IBM in the Economist for the company's 100th birthday: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2011/06/09/1100100-and-counting https://www.economist.com/briefing/2011/06/09/1100100-and-co... It's pretty interesting to look at some of the quotes from that article now: - "As IBM enters its second century in good health, far younger IT giants, such as Cisco Systems, Intel, Microsoft and Nokia, are grappling with market shifts that threaten to make them much less relevant." - "By 2015 the firm wants its earnings per share almost to double, to “at least” $20." (It was actually $11, and kept falling from there) - "given the complexity of the world and how much of it is still to be digitised, IBM's human platform looks unlikely to reach its limits soon. Perhaps not for another 100 years."