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