As Douglas said, ' we're going a long way in this programme'. Just what will it mean to have embedded computers, computers so small that they will be no more than fluff in our pockets? In the final part of the series Douglas was joined by experts in such fields as nano-technology to discover what the future might hold if computers really do become an integral part of our lives as some predict. Are we really in an evolutionary process, with computers co-evolving with us?

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CMS http://www.cmsinfo.com/
DTI http://www.consumer.gov.uk/cii/stant02.html
BT http://www.bt.com/innovation/viewpoints/pearson/index.htm
Information Society http://www.ispo.cec.be/convergencegp/
World Future Society http://www.wfs.org/
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