These comments from Andrew McAfee don't surprise me at all:

 

So I asked for a show of hands. I asked "How many of us, when we look into the crystal ball that shows the organization of the near future -- say 3 to 5 years from now -- see widespread deployment of E2.0 technologies?"

Almost every hand in the room went up.

At this point I completely lost my poker face. I sputtered "You have got to be kidding me!!" or something equally profound as I stared around the room.

In my opinion many people who attend these conferences are: