The Future

High encryption levels for secure transactions
(available very soon)

Millions of Web-TVs are on the way

More than 50 million TVs capable of using the Internet by 2005.

High-bandwidth (faster) communications:

ISDN
Cable TV
Satellite links
high capacity Internet backbones
multimedia protocols (e.g. ATM)?
faster digital 'telephone' lines (ADSL, xDSL)

Global mobile communications: Satellite communications Phones to access e-mail and the Web Watch sized communications device

Tighter integration of computer information
and multimedia (e.g. sound, video)

Video conferencing (improved quality)

Easier to use, in terms of finding the information you want
(improved search engines, intelligent personal search agents)

The 'one-stop shop' for all forms of media:
Access to all the information you want
(news, magazines, libraries, music, products, services, radio,
TV programmes, films, ...)

Speech recognition and language translation

Greater use of 3-D virtual reality environments

Tele-kinesis

Impact:
Significant changes in society and business
(e.g. travel patterns, knowledge, democracy, control, virtual businesses)

And what ever we can imagine...

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