Circuits lead to ultrasmall PCs Memristor. Intel and AMD released massively multicore processors. Samsung TVs respond to your gestures. These and other development technologies will fundamentally change the way you think - and use - technology.

The Next Big Thing? The memristor, a microscopic component that can "remember" electrical states even when turned off. It is expected much less expensive and faster than flash storage. A theoretical concept since 1971, it was built in the laboratory and has already begun to revolutionize everything we know about computing, possibly making flash memory, RAM, and even hard drives obsolete within a decade . The memristor is just one of the incredible technological advances sending shock waves through the world of computing. Other innovations in the works are more down to earth, but they also address the importance of watersheds. This New Technology that finally make paperless offices a reality to those that provide wireless power, these advances should make your humble PC a far different beast come the turn of the decade. In the following sections, we describe the basics of 15 upcoming technologies, with predictions that can come from them. Some are breathing in the neck, some progress is still out of reach. And all have to reckon with.