Cloud computing and all the various flavors and uses of this technology, such as Desktops-as-a-Service (DaaS) and streaming operating systems (OSes), are like the general virtualization methods and have huge potential for dramatically simplified information technology (IT) infrastructure with greater security and more cost-effective IT management and utilization.
Researchers are finding ways to apply task-lighting principles to create personal micro climates through technologies such as desktop fans, according to the College of Environmental Design.
Ubiquitous crowdsourcing, or the crowdsourcing of tasks in settings beyond the desktop, is attracting interest due to the increasing maturity of mobile and ubiquitous technology, such as smartphones and public displays.
Apple is getting serious in this area, hiring experts on haptics and revealing new technology such as a virtual touch desktop/keyboard based on its haptic technology.
Technologies, such as iPhone computers in pockets, powerful desktop browsers being pushed, powerful cheap numerous servers, and something that I don't understand why we didn't try before: connecting computers to the real world at a large scale (banks, telephones, restaurants, people).
Google wants WebM to become the default for Web video and join the wave of new, powerful, and, crucially, free-to-use Web technologies such as HTML5 that enables Web pages to act like desktop applications.
In recent years, a growing number of Americans have gained access to technologies such as 3D printers, laser cutters, easy-to-use design software, and desktop machine tools.
Technologies such as Google Gears allow Web applications to run even offline, bringing them back to the desktop.
Ubiquitous technologies such as server software that runs data centers, database applications, operating systems and productivity suites on desktops and laptops are especially good targets.
Such technologies include: Mobile transmission technologies such as GSM.
