In short: Gianpaolo presents a daring proposition about a deregulated IT . I believe that GP's idea is a very valid one. In the post below I explore the implications of a world where consumerism is brought to the extremes of IT deregulation: in such a world user centric identity management and user control/consent are key enabling aspects that cannot be ignored . From time to time I have nice chats with Gianpaolo, during which he gives me glimpses of his thinking about where IT is going. I especially liked his considerations about consumerism and deregulated IT: not that he finally made a post on the topic , I can share some of the trends and implications I draw from it. The foundation of this entire matter lies in becoming fully aware of the trend that has been dubbed as consumerism. This is already a pretty loaded term already, however I really like the position of Peter Sondergaard (Gartner director of global research), as captured by David Berlind at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo: Sondergaard went on to describe how consumer technologies and configurations now rival and often exceed in the prowess of the corresponding technologies found in the organizations that are used to serving consumers on their terms ("their" being the organizational side). "Consumers are rapidly creating personal IT architectures capable of running corporate style IT architectures" said Sondergaard. "They have faster processors, more storage, and more bandwidth. In 2012, expect consumer technologies to
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