Salgar, S M(INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, February NaN, 2004)
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Abstract:
Phenomenal advancements have taken place in the field of Information and communication
technologies in the last decade. Spectacular and innovative changes are expected to take
place in these fields in coming decade. Networking technologies are going through a sea
change. This paper enumerates the likely networking technologies which are emerging,
particularly WLANs. Most of the personal communication in the country will be through
cellular/ mobile technologies, which are also covered in the paper. Impact of mobile
communication on possible wireless libraries is brought out. Economic and social changes
are bound to give a fillip to online or e-education using Web based technologies. The need
for correlation and comparison of data from distributed sources is giving rise to new discipline of virtual data warehousing. These topics too are briefly covered in this paper.