This study attempts to forecast the future nature of high-technology crime. High technology can be defined as a form of sophisticated electronic device - computer, cellular telephone, and other digital communication - that is in common use today. Criminal activity involving these devices now usually takes the form of manipulating the device to aid in the performance of some criminal activity, such as using cellular telephones in drug deals to thwart government intervention or a computer program to achieve a theft of money or data. Technology changes at an astounding rate while law enforcement techniques, which traditionally are reactionary, do not.