Tom White presented on the future of Hadoop at a user group meeting. Key goals for Hadoop include modularity, support for multiple languages, and integration with other systems. The Hadoop project was split into core, HDFS, and MapReduce repositories. Upcoming releases include 0.20.1 and 0.21, with 1.0 to establish versioning rules. Interesting projects include using Avro for RPC, distributed configuration, and improving MapReduce performance.