Future Now: IBM nominates five innovations

In my series Future Now, I found this interesting article: IBM nominated Five Innovations which will change our lives over the next five years: 1) We will be able to access healthcare remotely, from just about anywhere in the world 2) Real-time speech translation—once a vision only in science fiction—will become the norm 3) There will be a 3-D Internet 4) Technologies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environmental importance 5) Our mobile phones will start to read our minds These five innovations were selected based on projects in our Research labs, research conducted by our business think-tank, and ideas pooled from more than 150,000 people from 104 countries who took part in an online brainstorming session called “IBM InnovationJam.” Item 4 deals with carbon nanotubes used for water desalination and nanostructure fabrication used in making better solar cells.