more tech predictions

Filed in archive Technology on October 14, 2003

I really like these predictions about the next big thing. While I'm a permanent optimist it will remind me of things failed one day.

So here are some from a recent San Jose Mercury News article:

• Wireless everywhere -

  "...future devices will be smart enough to work with any wireless network that's available, and to automatically fetch the information you want"



• biological engineering -

  "...companies looking at ways to tap expanding knowledge of the human genome to create drugs from scratch for fighting targeted diseases, as well as companies designing medical monitoring chips."



• Embedded networks -

  "Computing power is becoming so inexpensive that tiny computers will soon be cheap enough to stick inside almost every manufactured object. Judy Estrin, a serial entrepreneur who has founded or run three very successful computing networking companies, said embedded computers will unleash a ``phenomenal cycle'' in about five years."