InformationWeek

June 16, 1997

Future of the PC

For 20-year-olds, the next decade of human development is about finding oneself, beginning a life's work, and-maybe-settling down. Today, 20 years after PCs were conceived in California garages, a similar maturation is under way for a technology that has exceeded every expectation.

So, what's ahead? InformationWeek asked leading industry executives to share their visions on the future of PC computing, if not for an entire decade, at least for the next couple of years.

Larry Roshfeld
General manager of Java development in the Internet applications division of Lotus Development Corp. in Cambridge, Mass.
Hideaki Kawakami
Senior chief engineer of the electron tube and devices division of Hitachi Ltd. in Tokyo.
Terry Bailey
A senior VP at NEC Technologies Inc. in Boxborough, Mass.
Rich Raimondi
General manager of the business LaserJet division of Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, Calif.
Robert Gilbertson
President and CEO of Network Computing Devices Inc. in Mountain View, Calif.
Steve Luczo
Executive VP of corporate development at Seagate Technologies and chief operating officer at Seagate Software in Scotts Valley, Calif .
Bill Raduchel
Chief information officer of Sun Microsystems in Mountain View, Calif.