The Php programming languages is one of the runaway successes of the web. It was originally conceived by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 as a web scripting language to facilitate the implementation of dynamic web pages. In that particular capacity it excells.
It is a powerful language, and that possibly explains its immense popularity on the web, but its success must be partly due to its simplicity. Typical programming tasks in php seem easier, and that has a corresponding impact on productivity. Given a choice of a scripting language I would always opt for php over for example its more brash competitor ASP.NET
1. Smaller faster, cheaper, lighter computers for the desktop. They will be no larger than a DVD drive. They will be silent, and run free software, and much of this will be web based. They will use solid state disks, and large quantities of cheap memory.
2. More powerful mobile phones will largely replace traditional PCs. The screens of mobiles will occupy as much of the phone as physicallly possible. "Soft buttons will have largely replaced mechanical buttons in top of the range phones.3. Sophisticated screen display technology will be available that will allow us to use bigger computer monitors in smaller less likely workplaces.
4. Micro-factories: places of work no bigger than a loft
extension, where budding entrepreneurs labour in their free time
"printing" products with 3D printers and selling their wares
by the internet.