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Java becomes a better Grande (HPCC) programming environment than Fortran and C++
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High speed networks become pervasively deployed
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Microsoft does not win -- some combination of IBM Sun Netscape (...) stops the advance of NT, COM, Internet Explorer, ChromeEffects ...
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The Web remains a creative open environment
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Supercomputers remain a small market but do not entirely disappear -- they may become "just" clusters
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Technical computing (on supercomputers and below) continues to be important but problems become complex with linked databases and linked multiple disciplines
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