Java software development tools were somewhat lacking on the Palm PDA device, and so some bright spark from Brazil developed some comprehensive ones based heavily on java. In fact they claim 99.99% compatibility.
We played around with SuperWaba for some time and even contemplated writing some Palm specific software with it. But the Palm device lost ground when its operating system was swept away by Windows CE.
1. Smaller faster, cheaper, lighter computers for the desktop. They will be no larger than a DVD drive. They will be silent, and run free software, and much of this will be web based. They will use solid state disks, and large quantities of cheap memory.
2. More powerful mobile phones will largely replace traditional PCs. The screens of mobiles will occupy as much of the phone as physicallly possible. "Soft buttons will have largely replaced mechanical buttons in top of the range phones.3. Sophisticated screen display technology will be available that will allow us to use bigger computer monitors in smaller less likely workplaces.
4. Micro-factories: places of work no bigger than a loft
extension, where budding entrepreneurs labour in their free time
"printing" products with 3D printers and selling their wares
by the internet.