A Look at the Future [Guest editorial]

If predictions about the future were as easy to come by as judgments about the past, the set of papers I organized for this 25th Anniversary issue might well have focused on the next 25 years-particularly since other papers in this issue deal with the corresponding past quartercentury. But predictin...

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Published in:Computer (Long Beach, Calif.) Calif.), 1976-12, Vol.9 (12), p.9-10
Main Author: Hobbs, L.C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Application software
Computer industry
Microcomputers
Microprocessors
Semiconductor memory
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Summary:If predictions about the future were as easy to come by as judgments about the past, the set of papers I organized for this 25th Anniversary issue might well have focused on the next 25 years-particularly since other papers in this issue deal with the corresponding past quartercentury. But predicting the future is always a chancey business, and trying to look 25 years into the future of our fast-moving industry is a long shot indeed. So, sacrificing symmetry for caution, we have focused most of our attention on the nearer term.
ISSN:0018-9162
1558-0814
DOI:10.1109/C-M.1976.218461