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IBM's annual list of five innovations set to change our lives in the next five years
Gizmag ^ | 12/28/2010 | Ben Coxworth

Posted on 12/29/2010 1:21:00 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies

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1 posted on 12/29/2010 1:21:02 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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They left out the suspension of “mark to market” accounting.


2 posted on 12/29/2010 1:22:32 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder ("Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking" - Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

“They left out the suspension of “mark to market” accounting.”

also known as federal levitation


3 posted on 12/29/2010 1:25:38 PM PST by cowtowney
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4 posted on 12/29/2010 1:26:05 PM PST by JRios1968 (This is me, in a nutshell: "Let me out of here...I'm trapped in a nutshell!!!!")
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
3D telepresence

This means that Jim is going to have to build a holographic conference center and vacation getaway for our 3D Freeper telepresences.

If he refuses, we'll just gather on his front lawn with our 3D beer coolers and lawn chairs.

5 posted on 12/29/2010 1:27:14 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: Jim Robinson

Pinging you to post #5 above.


6 posted on 12/29/2010 1:28:59 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

If we don’t replace Obama and his Marxist cabal pretty soon, there won’t be any five year advances in technology. Not in America anyway. Maybe IBM can pull it of in Free China.


7 posted on 12/29/2010 1:33:08 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

1) Waste of time/money/effort. Phone/email work fine for 99+% of uses.

2) Improvements in battery technology would be welcome.

3) A researcher who does not control his/her own data collection protocol is asking for trouble.

4) Real-time commute management? Yes, yes, very nice I guess.

5) “Waste” computer heat isn’t wasted in the winter when you need to heat the office anyway. Convert the heat into electricity? Good luck with that low deltaT heat engine.

Yawn....is this the best we can do?


8 posted on 12/29/2010 1:34:58 PM PST by poindexter
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Phone/email work fine for 99+% of uses.

no hot clients?

9 posted on 12/29/2010 1:38:00 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: Jim Robinson
Amen to that! Take a sneak peek at GM's 2015 Chevy GEO prototype...


10 posted on 12/29/2010 1:38:17 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Is this like IBM’s Punch-Card tabulating Machine that they sold to Nazi Germany for the 1936 German Census so they could find the Jews(and others) more “efficiently”? O and IBM also provided The Nazis tech support as well.


11 posted on 12/29/2010 1:40:42 PM PST by US Navy Vet
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“3D telepresence” is a routine technology in the universe of “Bones.”


12 posted on 12/29/2010 1:52:35 PM PST by dangus
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

This is an annual thing? Never heard of it.
Be neat to see their list from 10 years ago.


13 posted on 12/29/2010 1:52:38 PM PST by DManA
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To: US Navy Vet

Is this like IBM’s Punch-Card tabulating Machine that they sold to Nazi Germany for the 1936 German Census so they could find the Jews(and others) more “efficiently”? O and IBM also provided The Nazis tech support as well.

I’m sure they just thought that they were Building a Smarter Planet...


14 posted on 12/29/2010 1:52:52 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: US Navy Vet

Ya make one little mistake and they never forget.


15 posted on 12/29/2010 1:57:09 PM PST by DManA
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To: dangus
I like Bones.

As an aside, 3D telepresence is going to completely rearrange the world real estate market.

16 posted on 12/29/2010 1:57:37 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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Have thought for a while holographic football, baseball, or opera on your living room floor would be pretty cool to watch.


17 posted on 12/29/2010 2:06:13 PM PST by Jolla
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To: DManA
I found The 2009 list

The 2006 list(pdf)

18 posted on 12/29/2010 2:11:48 PM PST by Rio
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Thanks for a great find - they did not get much right in 2006 so what makes anyone think these are great? Kinetecs - it is the new Plastic. Many people think that we will have computer sensors like the Kinetec games that will run plenty of life, via the motion sensors - it can happen very fast.

By the way in 2006 IBM thought phones would read minds - maybe they should make a phone. I like my new Focus from Samsung - it reads enough for an old guy. The screen is cool and the applications are easy to use.

19 posted on 12/29/2010 2:21:58 PM PST by q_an_a (a)
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To: Rio

They’re kinda obsessed with 3D aren’t they.


20 posted on 12/29/2010 2:24:27 PM PST by DManA
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