Most of the major players in the PC development market are producing Java development environments.

The new concept of the "Network Computer", also known as "Thin Clients" and "Internet Toasters" is gaining strength. However, I believe that it will be a while before the idea really takes off, and it seems unlikely that these boxes will really work well with NO local non-volatile storage.

If you want find out where Java is going to go in the future, become part of that future yourself. Start to use Java!