A look ahead

Computing remains a rapidly developing area of technology with new products being brought to market every day. This chapter consists of a number of items that cover some of the emerging products and ideas that are being written about in research journals, trade releases and computing magazines. Some of the items will be available in the very near future, others may be in their final stages of development and to complete the selection, we include some ideas that are in their early stages of research. The problem with writing a chapter like this is that it soon becomes dated, as development races forward, so one way of treating this chapter is as a snapshot in time, early 2003.