Apart from the resulting list, the high-tech method the participants used to choose the top 10 technologies is as interesting as the technologies themselves. For your consideration in 1997 The 10 chosen this year are as follows. Another key subtopic is the digital signature, which allows the recipient of an e-mail message to authenticate the sender. It s not just businesses but their customers who want to be sure the Internet is secure before doing business on it. Johnson said we might all someday have digital ID cards to identify ourselves in cyberspace.
Documents stored on disks are easier to sort and search through.
However, there are both accounting and technology roadblocks. General communications technology. Many technologies are affecting the way data and voice are transmitted. These include common ones such as wireless networks as well as satellite communications. General communications technology affects, and is affected by, security issues.