... traditional family forms will no longer be the foundations of society

... by 2015 Britain will need between 4.4 and 5.5 million additional homes because of longer life expectancy, more people choosing to live alone or increasing migration in Europe

... Britain is likely to become a predominantly service and information based economy

... managerial and professional occupations will grow with a related decline in those engaged in skilled and semi-skilled manual tasks

... traditional forms of organisations will decline due to Information and Communication Technologies

... long-term careers and employment in a small number of large corporations are likely to decline as employees are forced to be more adaptive, shifting between companies with greater frequency as well as embarking upon periods of self-employment

... office space will be shared more efficiently, through such initiatives as hot desking, hotelling and the provision of a public space for meetings with colleagues and clients.

Do you disagree? Let us know what you think.

Design of personal technologies - submissions wanted
A themed issue of Personal Technologies (ISSN 0949-2054, Springer Verlag)
David Frohlich, Jim Girard and Rachel Murphy from the HP Labs, Bristol are looking for articles

• describing and debating the increasing importance of design in the computer industry and
• exploring the implications for the development of more personal technologies in the future.

The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2000. For more details please contact David Frohlich or visit http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/faculty/cpim/PeTe.html