Future Computer Trends:
The components of a PC will be built into the (6) and large plasma or electroluminescent flat panel display hanging on a partition wall will act as both a (7) and videophone display.
A. desk B. monitor C. built D. hard
A high resolution, touch sensitive LCD (8) into desktop will allow pan-based pointing and data input. In the home, meanwhile, computers will become as ubiquitous as TVs.
Computer interfaces will be far friendlier than (9) graphical user interfaces (GUI) of today. Computers will use "human interfaces" based on multimedia.
RISC microprocessors will finally obliterate the ever thinning gap between workstations and PCs. Similar advances in nonvolatile flash memory will lead to the replacement of magnetic (10) disks with electronic "silicon disks".
