SIGNIFICANCE
This document contains a list of trends I have identified based upon quotes from managers, professionals, consultants, journalists, futurists, and educators who study the technologies that are driving the digital revolution, digital dawn, information highway, Internet, etc.

  • Microprocessors: Driver of the Digital Dawn
  • Lasers and Fiber Optics: The Second Driver of the Digital Dawn
  • Sensors: The Third Driver of the Digital Revolution
  • Death of Distance
  • Rise of All-optical Network
  • Demise of Desktop Computer Industry
  • Demise of the Telephone Switch
  • Demise of the Circuit Switched Network
  • Rise of Network-Centric Computing
  • Rise of Networks as Supermarkets
  • Rise of the Internet
  • Rise of the Broadband Internet
  • Rise of Wireless Internet
  • Rise of the Web Dial Tone
  • Rise of Internet Telephone
  • Rise of Digital Agents
  • Rise of the Teleputer
  • Rise of Network Computer
  • Rise of Brows able, Searchable TV
  • Rise of Cheap Wireless Communications
  • Rise of Speech Recognition
  • Rise of Talking Computers
  • Rise of Extranets
  • Rise of the Visual Computing Platform
  • Rise of Personal Area Networks
  • Rise of Quantum Computers
  • Rise of the Conversational Computer
  • Rise of IP Everywhere
  • Rise of Wireless Networks
  • Rise of Power Line Telephony
  • Rise of Virtual Supercomputer Networks
  • Demise of the Internet Backbone Problem
  • Rise of Data Broadcasting
  • Rise of Telematics
 

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