IBM's Next 5 in 5

[TBA810ASx]

rfidchip

[isleida3]

we have buildings with solar panels already, but the web doesn't talk to us yet.

[LunaVorax]

This looks like 1960's video prediction about the future

[ORIONCUBE]

Number six: a Quantum Oracle: possible with a matrix of Random Number Generators and a Boltzmann neural net...

[amjott]

The "thin film solar cells" have been talked about for the last 15 years. Solar sucks. At less than 10% efficiency, and sky-high costs, it's a poor replacement for good ole' coal-fired or nuke electricity.

[myleftnutts]

and that's certainly not a accident is it???.

[paschang]

why can't she just go ask the clerk for a different size?

[iambill1withyt]

I also find it pathetic that they so prominently feature a laptop that they no longer sell. It's a Lenovo, not an IBM, which is another soul-less hunk of ill-fitting plastic.

[sethgreenfest]

Still waiting for better acting classes and less cheesy promotional videos, though. Maybe IBM should invest in THAT.

[DeathByNukes]

i like the draw color and paint

[aleksag]

lol, ibm sux!

[Gart7]

Lol number 3, 4 and 5

[Supernovacore]

omg.. what idiots

[dero32]

All of this pretty much exist.

None of these things are innovations.

I laughed when the girl in the dressing room is touching the computer screen and nothing happens.

Hahaha!

[paxout]

awesome, the future is here.

[grahamperrin]

Now, at last, you have something to _really_ keep you awake at night. Something other than a forgotten cooking ingredient.

I don't need a 2013 crystal ball to tell you that these people should not worry about genetic predispositions. They should worry about boredom, obesity and senility.

Seriously: some of these innovations may bring _real_ benefits to society. But whoever produced this video should be shot, or teleported to their vision of the future. Of the two, which one is worse? ;)

Peace

[grahamperrin]

2. The Future to The Rescue! Forget recession: money-saving devices are embedded in concrete, stuck to the fridge, EVERYWHERE! VOIP allows you to make mobile 'phone calls to your laptop, from the comfort of your sofa -- all for FREE! Buy a dress, pay a visit to the Genetic Health Consultant (The Fourth Profession). Enjoy the reduced cost of services that are provided from within a solar-powered building. From your GHC and their innovative crystal ball: learn the likely nature of your death.

[grahamperrin]

1. Whilst 99% of women talk (to their mothers, maybe), cook, shop for ill-fitting dresses or forget to buy things for their husbands: 99% of people on the sidewalk are husbands, walking from one soulless office block to another. Or enjoying The Third Profession: mixing the future-concrete that builds soulless office blocks and the streets and sidewalks in between.

[grahamperrin]

5. This new richness of life fills people's brains to overload, so much so that they can't sleep at night for fear of forgetting some important fact. The Future to The Rescue! Fridge magnet-oriented memory-complementary micro-devices will remind you that you forgot to buy some cooking ingredient for your one-person 2013 solar powered TV dinner.

[grahamperrin]

4. A woman stepping outside the home only to go shopping, for a dress that doesn't fit, in an understaffed store. Yes, folks! In 2013 all human sales assistants of the past are jobless, at home, alone, sitting on the sofa talking to computers, occasionally standing to walk to the kitchen and cook. And step aside from the stove to read the last remaining product of the print industry: the fridge magnet.

[grahamperrin]

Watch the video from the one minute mark, consider the innovations in order 3-4-5-1-2. I see:

3. A woman at home sitting alone on the sofa making a 'phone call to a computer, a woman at home alone cooking. Once, in the distant past, this lonely woman had a mother. And spoke to her on the 'phone.

[jvvjensen]

sounds nice, but as always they don't mention anything about the potential consequences.

[nutytube]

pawns for the system

[PixelWorld]

Full genome mapping can be done in 2009 for $5000 - within few more years, it should be common-place and a normal thing for everything to get. Natural language conversations with computers is just the beginning, we will have many new ways of interacting with computers in the short term future. Keyboards will one day be a thing of the past (for majority of users). Human brains is not built for perfect memory, we need to do heavy remodeling of the brain first. Until, use your mobile phone :-)

[winterkm01]

Spray on solar panels - is that really possible?

[PixelWorld]

I think so yes, in a few years time most buildings will have an desentralized infrastructure for power. The buildings of the future will be more and more self-contained. This ensures scalability and protection against disasters, etc. Even water will probably be recycled for smaller regions instead of whole cities. Think small, think wireless, think agile :-) It's the inescapable future we all belongs to.