IBM Next Five:Biggest Innovations

IBM, International Business Machine has recently published the "IBM Next Five in Five" study. The company has selected five innovations which have the potential to revolutionize the world we live in. These are obviously related to application of technologies. These five innovations are:

• Healthcare facilities available remotely allowing millions of poor people get the best of healthcare guidance without physically presence from the best providers
• Using "Presence Technology", the mobile phones and PDAs will become a real companion.
• Real-time speech recognition
• 3-D internet which has the ability to change the whole paradigm of how we interact with Internet today.
• Nanotechnology -- the ability to manipulate individual atoms and molecules to form tiny new structures -- has already had a major impact on microprocessors, making electronic products like PCs and mobile phones smaller, better and cheaper.

Even if all of them dont happen, we are destined to have really exciting times ahead.

The biggest innovation or medical research, however, is the stem cell therapy. This has the potential to change the human life forever. Stem cells have been used to treat patients with heart ailments,patients paralysed because of spinal injuries, patients with diabetes and what not....The potential is immense and if the clinical research and pilot treatments go as intended, we are in for a world which will have probably no disabled person.....what about that.
I just cant stop dreaming about that..........

Cheers