Technology and the Pace of Change in our Lives is Becoming More Rapid by Nan Wood
The pace of change is accelerating. In today’s vernacular, the paradigm shift is happening twice as fast. Technology of today, will be obsolete shortly. In the case of information technology, in less than one year, progress is doubling. Information technology covers more than computers, software... When baby boomers were young, man went to the moon and technology especially space technology became a paradigm shift. ... My mind is telling me that is the future of my youth. ... The price of decoding a gene base pair is declining to less than a penny today.

Shooting Down a Mechanical Organic UAV by Lance Winslow
We must understand in the future that our enemies will be using UAV Technologies against us. These UAVs will come in all sorts of sizes, in swarms and maybe cross-category technologies; half missile-half UAV, part balloon-part UAV, Organic models-part bird? ... Many follow the Strouhl number so we can use this to guestimate its future positions so we can hit them with bullets or anti-UAV mini units, which have optical flow sensors on-board, this will take a few years due to the need to have very small sensors and TinyOS which can process this kind of huge amount of information.

AI-Governance; The Future of IT by Lance Winslow
Information technologies of the future will include artificially intelligent governance. That does not mean there will not be a human go-between interface to stand up at a podium and promise you the world. Human societies and civilizations are very much use to that and so it probably will not... Before you get upset at the idea of artificial intelligent governance of our government, consider if you will the tax savings that will be given back. ... I hate to break it to you but in the future we will have more of this not less.

Career Options in Information Technology ( Bio-Technology, Software Programming, Networking) by Vinay Rana
The scope of career options in Information Technology is very wide. Students can pursue their career in many fields related to Information Technology. Some of Favorite options in IT, these days are: 1) Bio-Technology: This field is in the initial stage and will be hot favorite for technology... Already many big chip manufacturing companies are doing lot of research and development for finding new options for developing new chips with the help of Bio-technology. ... The medical science is looking out for new possibilities with the help of bio-technology.

Fiber Optics Education - The Trade of The Future by Mikael Rieck
If you don’t know much about fiber optics then you are not the only one. Even though fiber optics has been around for almost 60 years now it has just recently become something that has an effect on the everyday person and in most of the cases that person doesn’t even know it. ... To start with the technology of the future is deeply dependent of the fiber optics in order to transmit the huge amounts of data fast, and in high quality and at the lowest possible cost. ... The next part of the training will be about the different rates of flow, and the general physics of the operation of a...

Virtual Reality and Computerized Projection Video Conferences with Holographic Images by Lance Winslow
In the future there will be VR Virtual Reality meetings using computerized holographic projection, as these technologies are all currently available and becoming more robust and soon will be mass marketed. Give it 2-5 years and we will see some pretty wide spread use of these technologies. ... Well we will need the increased speeds for future holographic meetings, video on the go and all sorts of communication devices too. ... And then you could send streams of light waves as information at unbelievable speeds and still use the latest images on photons techniques to really scream the...

The Skinny on RFID by John Hanson
RFID is the abbreviation for Radio Frequency Identification. RFID is a method used to store and retrieve data using RFID transponders or tags. RFID tags have antennas that allow them to accept and respond to queries from the RFID transceiver. There are passive and active RFID tags. ... The future of RFID technology seems limitless as new ways to utilize its effectiveness are discovered frequently. ... Data transmitted can have information about the location of the tag, or specifics concerning the product tagged.

Data Backup and Storage Compliance, How Do Smaller Companies Achieve This? by Lee Morrell
Companies must account and deal for new legislation governing how information is stored on IT systems. The EU is shortly to adopt many of the recommendations on corporate governance set out by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US, UK firms are to be expected to deal with and manage explicit... Email archiving, the increased use of expensive write-once read-many media, information lifecycle management and content-aware storage as a few of the technologies which firms should consider for the future, though in some cases companies will simply need to improve the way they manage existing systems.

IT Spending: Protecting Your Clients from PC Vendors by Joshua Feinberg
If you have been in the computer consulting business for a long time know that one of the most important services you can provide for your clients is advising them on choosing products. Your clients rely on your computer consulting firm to point them in the direction of technology solutions that... The problem with these advancements is that clients have to suffer with unreliable hardware products while they are being perfected because most PC companies make them part of the testing process instead of giving them finished products.

Key Concepts of Virtual Private Networks by Thoas Powel
Virtual Private Networks claim to solve majority of the security problems faced by the enterprises. Most of the issues were related to secure data transfer over the public internet. The internet's greatest asset is ubiquity and openness but this is its greatest weakness as well. ... Choosing the technology depends on how the problems are addressed and what will be the future trends of the present technology. ... Protecting the Privacy of information requires some sort of encryption. ... Security and predictable performances are a part of this technology.