Prior to the arrival of Visual Basic, there was a ground breaking windows software development tool called Wingz Hyperscript
Wingz was a programming language with a spreadsheet built in. The language was event driven, and so you could attach code to buttons that would execute when that button was pressed. Animations could be produced and the spreadsheet could be used as a simple database.
At the time there was no development tool that could compare. But like many promising development tools it seemed to fade into obscurity.
I believe Informix owns this software now
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.