There is a tribe of people in the world today who are, well, a different  breed of cat, shall we say. They commit passages of Stranger in a Strange  Land to memory. They carry on a love affair with coffee, not only for its rich flavor, but for the opportunity to experience nearly infinite durations of caffeine-generated consciousness. They are not particularly WOWed when inventions like cellphones emerge, because chances are, they've already thought of them ... or envisioned them. They are the techies who work all day in front of a computer, then go home at night and, well, turn on a computer. And always, always, they are thinking, dreaming, about what will be The Next Cool Thing.

Recently, Enterpriseleadership.org had the opportunity to sit down with BMC Software's chief techie, CTO Tom Bishop, and to ask him a range of questions all around the idea of The Next Cool Thing. From what will Oracle CEO Larry Ellison do next, to how will the video iPod change the world, to what is the hype behind the recent GOOGLE/Sun Microsystems announcement (and what he'd hoped they'd say), Tom is not without opinions, visions, and creative thinking about some of the hottest topics in tech today. This visionary CTO even wonders aloud about the Disneyworld, or Brave New World, that the present Internet infrastructure will usher in ... and he invites the listener to think, and to dream, along with him.

Bio

Tom Bishop was named one of the top 25 CTOs by InfoWorld  Magazine in 2004 and is a well-known industry innovator who holds nine patents in fault tolerant computing and in leading the development of industry standards such as the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and POSIX.

Production Credits

Dana Farver, Executive Producer, Communities  Editor-in-Chief
Tom Parish, Audio Producer, Show  Host
Kimberly Stone, Web Development  Manager
Scott Ebner, Web Developer