As the year winds down, the NTEN Affinity Groups remain charged with discussions ranging from whether or not attendees should bring their kids to the 2008 NTC to how the future of IT staff is changing -- provoked by the new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google by Nicholas G. Carr. (For a review and excerpt of the book go here.)

Robert Weiner poses the question:

"Do you agree? Will IT departments have "little left to do once the bulk of ... computing shifts out of private data centers and into "the cloud."?

And Peter Cambell responds: