“Individual technologies take different
times to matriculate,” says John Cohn, IBM’s Chief Scientist. “But the thing
that’s common about them is that we think in 2015, all these predictions will
actually be something that we take for granted.”
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“Five in Five” list. While movies and television are already moving to the 3-D
interfaces, he says this technology will enable us to interact with photos,
browse the web and chat with friends in entirely new ways.
“Smart phones, for example, will be able to
do 3-Ds and you will not require glasses. Imagine your friend calling from
another city and having him or her pop up almost like Princess Leia in Star
Wars. It’s really National
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science of optics. where beaming into individual eyes, the light gives the
perception of 3-D, and tells the brain that you’re seeing a 3-D image,” says
Cohn. “We think that it will make communication much more personal.”
And when we
interact with friends in 3-D on our cell phones, Cohn says, there will be no
worries about our need to recharge the phone battery. Future batteries will
last much longer than they do today.“We have
scientists who are looking at new battery chemistries, looking at Brazil
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air batteries. Imagine a battery that actually recharges by breathing air like
you and I do. So when it’s sitting on the bed table at night while you’re
sleeping, it’s recharging,” he says. “That means that you can go 10 times
longer without recharging. That’s really good, not only that it is more
convenient, but it also means fewer of these batteries will end up in the waste
stream.”
The third
innovation on IBM’s list involves power – technology to capture heat from our
computers and re-use it.“As you use computers, as you’re surfing for the web,
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goes out through the chimneys. Well, our scientists are putting small channels
actually into the chips that do the computing, taking that heat back and using
heat pump technology to then heat a building or even cool a building. So the
energy will be reclaimed. So computing will become a lot more energy efficient.”
“Right now your GPS (Global Positioning
System) might be able to tell you there is congestion up ahead. Our scientists
are now using traffic prediction technology, not just detection, but
prediction, so that by knowing everyone’s driving patterns, knowing about the
arrival times of planes, trains, we’ll be able to give everyone personalized
commuting instructions. So rather than waiting for congestion to happen, then
moving people around it, we’ll be able to anticipate and prevent that congestion
on the same roadways and everyone will move more smoothly.”