Untangling the Future
Paul Saffo,
Business 2.0,
May 23, 2002
Interesting approach to predicting future trends - identifying where developments in existing technologies may merge with other technologies to produce entirely new fields. I think that barring a natural disaster or war most of these predictions are fairly safe. I wish the author had looked a bit more widely, beyond hard technology. The deployment of the semantic web, for example, is completely overlooked. Thus, while the article predicts the emergence of cognitronics (the interface of brain with computer) he does not mention onmicognition (the mental recall of all human information through cognitronic link to the semantic web - I just coined that term, so you know you heard it here first). Judging by the timeline in the article ('Woman types with her mind' is slated for 2010) we can expect omnicognition by 2050. What then? I mean really, what then?
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