In the early 1980s, people began to carry around those telephones that looked a lot like World War II Walkie-Talkies. Hard to imagine that, in less than thirty years, there would be over four billion cell phone subscribers world wide. In 1977 48,000 personal computers were shipped, compared with the millions which ship today each year. Computing power continues to explode, and the line between a cellphone and a computer has all but disappeared.

Application software is impacting our lives as never before, becoming commonplace and expected. Everything from texting your vote on American Idol to appliances that monitor their own health and cars that are aware of where you are, where you are going and everything in between, tomorrow is here.

How can you best allocate restrained budget and limited resources? How can you know what is coming? How can you educate your audience, everything from seniors new to the Internet to businesses being driven to the work-anywhere, distributed “no-collar” worker environment?

Engage the experts at e426.org to get an objective overview of your choices.