IBM’s Five Predictions For the Next Five Years

[Ringo]

• People power will come to life. Advances in technology will allow us to trap the kinetic energy generated (and wasted) from walking, jogging, bicycling, and even from water flowing through pipes.
• You will never need a password again. Biometrics will finally replace the password and thus redefine the word “hack.” Jokes aside, IBM believes multifactor biometrics will become pervasive. “Biometric data—facial definitions, retinal scans, and voice files—will be composited through software to build your DNA-unique online password.

• Mind reading is no longer science fiction. Scientists are working on headsets with sensors that can read brain activity and recognize facial expressions, excitement, and more without needing any physical inputs from the wearer. “Within [five] years, we will begin to see early applications of this technology in the gaming and entertainment industry,” IBM notes. It will also be good for folks who have suffered from strokes and have brain disorders
• The digital divide will cease to exist. Mobile phones will make it easy for even the poorest of poor to get connected.
• Junk mail will become priority mail. “In five years, unsolicited advertisements may feel so personalized and relevant it may seem that spam is dead. At the same time, spam filters will be so precise you’ll never be bothered by unwanted sales pitches again,” notes IBM.

[eejit101]

I predict none of this is in the common domain.

Really? Junk mail becomes good? WTF? And as for mobile phones for the poor? You try and give 500mil africans a phone.

[ScareCrowAKA]

BS ... its 2012 and Im still waiting on flying cars!

[eejit101]

world ends in 2012 anyway

[ScareCrowAKA]

Ah maybe its only the world, as we know it that ends, my son