INFOSTA (Information Science and Technology Association), celebrating its 40th anniversary, is scheduled to hold a technical forum on the theme, "Perspective of information science and technology at the beginnings of the 21st century". In order to campaign the forum and to encourage future activities of the INFOSTA members, a survey was conducted, asking their ten-year forecast of information science and technology from information users' points of view. Questionnaires were sent to 710 members of which 412 responded (response rate was 58%). Their expectation to future online information retrieval systems, databases, hardware and software, and their reception toward a coming paperless society were analyzed. A draft program of the Technical Forum was proposed.

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