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    Emerging Technologies
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2004-02) Salgar, S M
    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.