2010
From Future
Ray Kurzweil's predictions [1] from the Accelerating Change 2005 conference:
[edit] Computers Disappear
- Images written directly to our retinas (retinal display)
- Ubiquitous connectivity high bandwidth communications connection to the Internet at all times
- Electronics so tiny it's embedded in the environment, our clothing, our eyeglasses (embedded electronics)
- Full immersion visual-auditory virtual reality
- Augmented real reality
- Interaction with virtual personalities as a primary interface
- Effective language technologies (natural language processing, speech recognition, speech synthesis)
