Description of some of the expected future developments in time and frequency standards and distribution, including such topics as chip-scale atomic clocks (size of a rice grain, powered by AA battery, potentially capable of low cost mass production).

• 介绍一些未来可预期的时间频率标准和发布技术的进展，包括诸如“芯片级的原子钟”（大米粒尺寸，由AA电池供电，具有低成本大批量生产潜力）。