BT Labs' Dr Alan Steventon said serendipity- or a random element- was essential for successful online searching, as people like to "come across things by chance". Professor Steve Bentford of Nottingham University presented his vision to the delegates.
Specific areas will include the creation of portable and stationary devices that can handle human speech and vision in limited contexts and new networking technologies for mobility and for controlling physical devices.
By 2030, virtual reality will be created inside our nervous system by nanobots which are blood cell-sized robots, travelling through the capillaries of our brains and communicating wirelessly with each other and with our neurones.
Employees will doubtless be slow to appreciate the benefits of a technology which will monitor their comings and goings from the building and cross references those physical events with digital ones such as phones calls, internet access and emails...
Models of utility computing promoted by HP, IBM and Sun need a "reality check", a senior Dell executive has said. The reality check is that it's easy to talk about the future," said Bruce E Kornfeld, director of worldwide product marketing with...
The judges praised Pardo's creation as being the proving ground for the next generation of businessmen and women, for whom virtual world commerce will be just as important as physical trading. The game has ushered in a completely new type of...
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