I recently attended Gartner's high-growth conference, and wanted to share a few takeaways. Since the birth of the web, I've found two analyst firms, Gartner and Forrester, to not only be most insightful, but also sometimes uncannily prophetic. They often don't agree, but this time they do, and it's about a huge sea change that's been quietly creeping up on the business world. They also agree that, as with many seismic shifts, there'll be winners and losers, and the losers won't know they've lost until it's too late.