"Networks for People" Keynote Presentation Gary Chapman

The Key Technologies for the Next Ten Years

• Bandwidth
  
  
• Wireless networking
  
  
• Digital Television
  
  
• "Ubiquitous" Computing
  
  
• User Interfaces

This slide is a summary of the key technologies for the next ten years. Bandwidth refers to the speed at which data can be transmitted through a medium such as telephone, cable or wireless connections. Wireless Internet connections were introduced to consumers by mainstream computer hardware vendors for the first time in 1999. Digital television is a new standard that must be adopted by all TV broadcasters by 2006. "Ubiquitous" computing, sometimes called "pervasive" computing, is the label attached to the trend of putting computational capabalities into everday objects, beyond the familiar "screen, keyboard, box" of the personal computer. User interfaces refer to the ways people interact with the Internet or with computers, such as the way data appears on a computer screen.