What to Expect with Personal Technology

Personal Author:
Goldsborough, Reid
Journal Name:
Tech Directions
Source:
Tech Directions v. 68 no. 8 (March 2009) p. 13-14


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"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me." Shakespeare's words are just as wise today, but this hasn't stopped people from trying to divine the future.
This paper is addressing some predictions about the future of the personal technology, including the use of email and how it is going to decline, what will come in the future will be very interesting to think about it with your students also The advertising industry is highly expected to change among those sectors of society.
The report "Technology Trends for 2009." includes some insightful predictions, including: e-mail and called it overload a "serious productivity drain," the report indicates, will be social networking for professionals, which involve communications-centered web sites, and micro blogging, which involve brief text updates.

Computing will increasingly become increasingly access software online. Technology will decrease in cost as they increase in functionality and ease of use. Which includes services for personal as well as school and business use, such as word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, web site creation, and private wikis? The latter are collections of web pages designed to let anyone permitted to access them contribute or modify content, creating collaborative knowledge bases. The use of mobile devices will continue to increase. Cloud computing offloads processing and storage requirements to web-based servers, making it possible to do more with less powerful devices. The increasing availability of wireless broadband connections from the big companies