" The computer will become the hub of a vast network of remote data stations and information banks feeding into the machine at a transmission rate of a billion or more bits of information a second. Laser channels will vastly increase both data capacity and the speeds with which it will be transmitted. Eventually, a global communications network handling voice, data and facsimile will instantly link man to machine--or machine to machine--by land, air, underwater, and space circuits. [The computer] will affect man's ways of thinking, his means of education, his relationship to his physical and social environment, and it will alter his ways of living... These [forces] will coalesce into what unquestionably will become the greatest adventure of the human mind."

David Sarnoff, President of RCA, 1964

David Sarnoff was a pioneer in broadcast radio and television. He was also responsible for laying the groundwork for most of the technology we use today. His forecast in 1964 hit close to the bone because he was bright, had a rich understanding of the industry, and could witness trends as they were developing.

David Sarnoff's projections have largely become reality, with future trends open for all to see. Processors will continue to get faster, memory and storage will get larger and prices will fall by the megabyte or megahertz. Operating systems and software will improve and wired and wireless network speeds will increase substantially. Use of technology will spread throughout the world in ways that we cannot envision today and everything we're using right now will be considered antiquated within a relatively short period of time.

BlackBerry™ technology will also continue to evolve. The handheld will get faster, more powerful and more full featured. Features and strength of the network products will improve, network speed will increase, costs will drop, and use will spread throughout the world in countless unseen ways.

The BlackBerry Developer Journal will have a front row seat as BlackBerry evolves. Each issue we'll focus on bringing information to light that will help you to take part in this evolutionary process. In this issue, and previous issues, we have laid the foundation for future articles by providing detailed information on supported languages. In future issues we will move forward to provide working examples of how to take full advantage of everything cool about BlackBerry. It should be fun!

As always we are interested in your comments, suggestions, letters, and anything else that you feel would be of benefit to our developer community.

Please feel free to email us at editor@blackberrydeveloper.com

BlackBerry Developer Journal team