CNN.com Asia's Sci-Tech section proposes the following list of 20 trends and technologies that they believe will have a significant impact on personal computing in the coming year:

1. 400 Gigabyte Hard Drives
2. 1 GigaHertz PDA's
3. Organic Light-emitting Diode (OLED) screens
4. Next-generation instant messaging
5. 802.11 wireless networks
6. Extensible Markup Language (XML)
7. Hyper-threading
8. Arapahoe: 3 Gigabyte Input/Output bus
9. Peer-to-peer networking
10. TFT computers (computers that fit on a pane of glass)
11. Magnetic RAM (retains data with the power off)
12. Presence Technology
13. Fuel cells for portable devices
14. Distributed computing
15. Voice Portals
16. Electronic Wallet (single storage for personal and financial data)
17. New cell phone network
18. 10 Gigahertz and up processors
19. Bigger, better digital cameras
20. Serial ATA storage (faster interface for disk drives)

CNN doesn't claim that all this technology will be readily available in 2002. Some of it will be released, some is still in the prototype testing area. All of it will be talked about, designed for, promised to consumers in the weeks and months to come.