Carporate visions of personal Computing Space

Аннотация

Yelcome to the 2002 version of the Computers in Libraries Buyer's Gz/z'Je Windows/lntel (Wintel) indus-try review. Last year we began by not-ing that we were nioving away from personal computers, operating systems, and applications that mainly generate printed pagcs while heading toward a fu-ture filled with the tools needed to create a high-bandwidth. Net-centric. media-rich environment. The article conlinued with a forecast that extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography lechnology would permit the manufacture of processors with billions of transistors in the 10-, 20-. or 30-GHz speed range by 2005. Later. when these processors become widely available. real-time high-definition vidco creation, manipulation, and presentation; natural speech recognition: and idiomatic language translation will be possible on the desktop. The arlicle concluded with a prediction that combinations of these high-speed. multibillion-transistor pro-cessors eventually would become the heart of artificial agents and machines that think.