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New technologies change the innovation landscape forever. Some technologies have a much larger impact than others. Since the 1980s, four major technological leaps defined the innovation landscape for business IT: the PC, the web, mobile, and the cloud. When IBM launched its personal computer in 1981, it kicked off an upward spiral of innovation and productivity. In the early 1990s, the rise of the web meant that every business had to open a new front door, online. Steve Jobs kicked off the mobile revolution in 2007 and put a portable supercomputer into the pockets and purses of billions of people around the world. Finally, the cloud computing era, which occurred concurrently with the mobile era, made it easier for companies to create digital value, scale it on demand, and innovate rapidly. Sure, there were other technologies that were stirred into the mix, but those were the big four. Four decades, four big leaps forward, four new colors in the innovation palette. In a single decade, the 2020s, six technologies will combine to fuel more innovation than in the last 40.