Biggish Blue predicts mobile phones will read your mind

SERVICES OUTFIT, IBM has been making some bold claims about the sort of technology we can expect to see in the next five years.

Dr Daniel Dias, Director of IBiggish Blue's India Research Laboratory has listed his predictions for technological breakthroughs in the next five years.

Firstly IBM claims that people will be able to access healthcare remotely. Currently millions with chronic health problems such as diabetes, heart, kidney or circulatory problems will be able to have their conditions automatically monitored as they go about their daily lives.

Mobile phones will start to read our minds in the next five years. Advanced "presence" technology will give mobile phones and PDAs the ability to automatically learn about their users' whereabouts and preferences as they commute, work and travel. Dias says that your phone will know when you're in class or in a meeting and divert automatically to voicemail. It will also know your favorite pizza outfit. He also claims that real-time speech translation will become the norm. IBM has been saying this for years, but it never really happens.

Dias believes that there will be a 3-D Internet were shopping will become like a 3d game. Finally he adds that everyone will start getting all excited about environmental problems and will be looking for technology to solve them.

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