British Telecom has given their expectations to the future and produced a number of timelines, that should give ideas about when we can expect tecgnology to evolve. I found this when I was trying to answer my parents question "When can we expect to buy a robot for doing household work like cooking, cleaning and helping us" - as far as I can see from the BT whitepaper, this should occur around 2012-2020. so this could actually be relevant for my parents.
I do personally not beleve that things is going to evolve that fast. I think that they are 20-30% to optimistic about their timelines. You can download the report here :-)
The article is also located on the BT homepage.
BT has a Futurolist which write quite a few interesting things about what he expects of the future - see Ian Pearsons articles.
Gartner, Forrester and most other consultants are talking very entusiastic about building enterprise portals and the forthcomming "Smart Enterprise Suites" where Portal, CMS and collaboration software is melting into one application.
Now Microsoft has finally revealed it's new products for 2003 and it looks like they are catching up. The projects "Jupiter" and "Greenwitch" is two very interesting MS projects where we could expect products from around Q3.
Read more on: Microsoft's PressPass