5 things IBM thinks will change the world in the next 5 years

[microrobert]

5 things IBM thinks will change the world in the next 5 years

In tech, five years is an eternity. Five years ago, it was 2007. You probably don't even remember 2007. I certainly don't: 2007 was 5,000 articles ago. IBM has a longer memory than us all, however, and based on its history, the company has five five-year predictions (http://dvice.com/archives/2011/12/ibm-says-mind-c.php) as to how technology will make our lives better within the next five years.

We've taken the information that IBM presents (http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2012/12/the-ibm-5-in-5-our-2012-forecast-of-inventions-that-will-change-the-world-within-five-years.html) and collected it down below, as well as our take on what technology could make these predictions real, or why it sounds just a bit too far-fetched.

5 things IBM thinks will change the world in the next 5 years | DVICE (http://dvice.com/archives/2012/12/5-things-ibm-sa.php)

[catgurlars]

This is very interesting. It kind of reminds me of the AT&T "You Will" commercials from the early '90s.

[el22]

Interesting list, but very likely they won't be available in the next 5 years. I'm reading and playing by programming with computer-vision libraries these days, and although this is a 50+ years old/"mature" field, it's still very inferior to human capabilities. In fact we still haven't figured out (completely) how the human vision works, and it's very likely that it's an AI-complete, which means that you need to implement the equivalent functionality of humans' brains to have humans' vision.

[Elyas sami]

Flexible screens are dominating the smarthphones/tablet markd in the futur.