Looking for the grails
Erik Delfino · Online · 1998
For the first time in ages, the PC world has reached a sort of plateau. The last year has had no major new software or hardwre changes, and many of us were actually using the same versions of things we had a year ago. But there are a number of computing holy grails being searched for in the labs of Silicon Valley. The successful commercialization of any one of these will completely change computing as we know it. They include: useful speech recognition, new display technology, wireless networking really cheap home computers.