Technological development is ever accelerating, bringing new products onto the market. To help understand the range of innovations emerging and their potential impacts, researchers at British Telecommunications began the Technology Timeline in 1991 under the direction of Paul Mcllroy. Since then, futurist Ian Pearson of BTexact Technologies, BT's business division, has updated the timeline about once every two or three years. The timeline presented here is drawn from the latest edition of the full timeline developed by Pearson with Ian Neild, which is available on BTexact's Web site. The time...
