What the future holds Unless you’re in the business of creating sci-fi for entertainment, predicting the future of technology can be a risky proposition. But as the personal computing pioneer Alan Kay once said, “the best way to predict the future is to invent it,” so InfoWorld turned to some high-tech innovators for their take on the future, and they bravely stepped up to the crystal ball. Their vision of the next 25 years may validate the imaginings of Neal Stephenson, Gene Roddenberry, and Steven Spielberg after all. Technology Industry