The impending revolution in computer technology

Abstract

Webster gives one definition of a revolution as follows: "A total or radical change." The following discussions are concerned with a radical change in the technology which provides components for use in digital data processing systems. At the onset of a revolution it is not clear what the outcome may be. Technological revolutions, as opposed to political revolutions, however, tend to have a common characteristic of inducing major changes regardless of whether or not the revolution is completely successful. The papers presented in this session consider various aspects of what is being anticipated as a technological revolution.