Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Tue 13th Jul 2004 21:56 UTC
After personal computers arrived in the 1970's they went through a series of revolutionary changes delivered by a series of different platforms. It's been over a decade since we've seen anything truly revolutionary, will we see a revolution again? I believe we could not only see revolution again, we could build it today.
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I think we're going to see a lot of reconfigurable logic in the future. FPGAs got immensely capable in the last years and now that it's possible to reconfigure them at run time, there are a lot of exciting possibilities.
Another key point will be networks: Not like the ones now, but instead a dense self organizing network of virtually every equipment which posesses some form of intelligence. We will see OSes which run "on the net" rather than on a single computer, these OSes will encapsulate and integrate all the processing power in their reach and present you with a single view and interface to access this processing power.