A review is made of some recent results in noncommutative geometry, especially those aspects which might in some way be of use in the study of strings and membranes. Efforts to add a gravitational field to noncommutative models of space-time are also reviewed. Special emphasis is placed on the case which could be considered as the noncommutative analog of a parallelizable space-time. It is argued that, at least in this case, there is a rigid relation between the noncommutative structure of the space-time on the one hand and the nature of the gravitational field which remains as a 'shadow' in the commutative limit on the other.