- Speed of computers will increase, but more importantly, they will continue to miniaturize.
- Speed of networks and the availability of connections is of critical importance. We can also safely say that this will steadily increase.
- Combining these two technological developments means that Assistive Technology like screen readers and synthetic speech, speech recognition, etc. will become pervasive in all kinds of technology.
- The functionality of the PDA of today and the Cel phone will merge.
- Another area of progress, which we must track closely, is flexible screen and virtual display technology. There are advances around the corner, and this will be rapidly adopted and integrated with portable computing as soon as practical.