In five years (2014) CALL-IS will be renamed the TIE-IS (Technology in Education Interest Section)
In ten years (2019) much energy will be focused on the use of handhelds in the classroom.

On the down side:
In five years, we'll be spammed in every conceivable way, including social networking sites and virtual worlds. Legislation will be introduced to deal with virtual crimes - for example, virtual rape will be considered a crime as significant as physical rape. There will be disputes over ownership of anything and everything on the Internet - content aggregators will be the prime offenders, laying claim to anything on or through their portals, but those sites that offer online collaboration spaces (think Google docs) won't be far behind. The heirs of Tim Berners-Lee will be suing for the right to royalties on use of the Web (okay, so maybe they won't have any way to do that, and Tim may still be alive).

In ten years, we will may have figured out how to use a virtual wax seal to show ownership, may have ceded all individual intellectual property claims, or may be living with draconian constraints on creation and distribution of online information. And schools may let students use handheld communication devices anytime, anywhere.

Well, somebody needed to give the unrosy view!

--Deborah

After talking with Deborah Healey about influential CALL books, I suggested predicting future books.

Thanks to Deborah for dreaming up these titles!

Tips for staying sane in an overconnected world
Will you be my (social networking) friend? A modern-day Mr. Rogers
Enough, already: Reducing unwanted texting in class (maybe better as an article)
Creative phishing as a language learning device