A New Decade. Any Predictions?
timcederman: Ubiquitous computing will finally arrive, with smart cards/RFID on our bodies seamlessly interacting with computers in our environment. As you walk up to your refrigerator, for instance, you're logged in and presented with a customized display. Same goes for the car or the entertainment surface at the Dentist's.I wrote my PhD on ubiquitous computing, and I can tell you that I heard "this is the year" for ubicomp every single year I spent writing it.  I finished it last year, and stuff I wrote back in 2002 was still relevant.  It's an incremental design that will slowly, slowly come, but nothing dramatic anytime soon, even across a decade.  I'm hopeful there'll be decent advances though.