[Bogey78O]

Have you ever seen Earth: Final Conflict?

They have a device called a global. Part computer/part phone/part GPS system.

I have faith these will oneday exist.

[Brett66]

I'm looking forward to the introduction of the OLED's. Seems like you should be able to purchase a thin 19 inch monitor for less than $50 by now.

[ikka]

802.11 is WAY hotter than some bogues Intel marketspeak like "hyper-threading".

Notice: typical pro-MS piece - not one mention of Linux or Mac OS X.

[Dittohead_2]

Wake me when PC's have caught up to Apple Computers

[lmr]

Darnit. I thought the PC in the article meant "Political correctness"! ;-)

[Petronski]

What is it? A way to make processors that are up to 100 times faster than today's chips.
What's cool? Even Moore's Law eventually gets trumped by the laws of physics. In a few years, the current method of packing ever greater numbers of transistors onto a chip will hit a wall. But a technology called Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography may break that barrier. Intel estimates that EUVL chips will boast 400 million transistors -- about ten times more than the Pentium 4's 42 million.
When's it coming? In three to five years.
What's the catch? Software that's capable of taking advantage of all this processing muscle is nowhere in sight.
Impact meter: 8

Speech recognition can use all the cycles you can throw at it.

By that time, I'm sure Microsoft Windows XXXP will require a Pentium 8 and use up all of these CPU cycles and thirst for more.

[x]

One factor won't change in 2002.

Journalists will still feel obligated to think up stupid puns.

[VOA]

bump

[tybalt]

"...technology is getter better/faster/smaller and continues to penetrate into our lives more and more and more..."

Ditto johnboy...yawn...this statement says nothing different in 2001 than it did in 1971.

GO64 and the 1541 Disk Drive!

[Redcloak]

Of course, the sick part is that the driving force behind all of these technological advances will be the needs of internet porn sites.

[RnMomof7]

FYI

[Zon]

When you see that a colleague is online, you can set up a conference or work session instantly -- no more telephone or e-mail tag.

I remember Jim Barksdale doing a key note presentation at Jupiter Communications back in 95 saying that he saw the Internet becoming as unencumbered as two people sitting on a park bench engaged in conversation. When I read the above I thought of how that might happen on FreeRepublic and elsewhere on the WWW.

An example... most people have an IM# signature accessed via their screen name (pop-up menu). Select the person's IM# you want to talk to and start talking. At the other end the person is signaled who the caller is (caller ID) and a subject line. He or she decides whether to respond. If yes a small window opens and you see the caller. And away you go. Conference calls would be just as easy. And the usually functions; block caller (nobody wants Dane and his ilk hounding you), ping caller list (address book) making it possible to engage people that aren't even at FreeRepublic.

[Bill Rice]

I'd be happy if Electronic Arts would just get the old M.U.L.E. team back together and release M.U.L.E. for the PC.