Looking into the Crystal Ball

• Productive rediscovery

  • the human intelligence abetted by geographic information technology

• As much about personal as about collective discovery

  • about making the invisible visible

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Rediscovery particularly in the classroom

Technologies to watch include:

Java

Linux

NT

XML (extensible markup language)

- formatting is separate from content (unlike HTML)

- can add zoom, pan, scale factors to markup language

and browsers will recognize it (great for online mapping)

Data warehousing

600 Mhz chips are out there now