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IBM PREDICTS FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES

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This morning, IBM Research released a report predicting five major innovations that will affect our lives profoundly by 2022. Among its predictions are:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health:   Computers will analyze patient speech and written words. Anomalies will reveal developmental disorders, mental illness, or neurological disease. Medical personnel will be able to track these conditions in real time, without having to wait for the patient to visit the clinic for a checkup. A I tracking through wearable devices will complement drug therapy and clinical treatment.
  • Superhero Vision:    Our eyes detect less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum. With hyperimaging tools and A I, though, we could ‘see’ far more than is revealed in visible light. With portable devices, we could sense hidden opportunities or threats. Our cars could ‘see’ through rain or fog, detect invisible hazards such as black ice, and tell us the distance and size of objects in our paths.
  • Macroscopes:   With machine learning and software, we could organize information about the physical world. Billions of devices within our range of vision will gather massive and complex data. This is what IBM calls the ‘macroscope’. It will enable us to read and instantly analyze the useful data all around us, while filtering out irrelevancies.
  • Medical Lab on a Chip:   By analyzing body fluids, devices you carry or wear will tell you if you need to see a physician. A single chip will handle all of the detection and analysis that currently requires a full biochemistry labs.
  • Smart Sensors that Detect Pollution:    With much more sensitive sensors, we could easily detect storage and pipeline leaks. Even the most minute and invisible leaks could be caught in real time. Sensors will report problems at the speed of light.

In previous reports, IBM predicted classrooms that learn you, touching through your phone, and computers with a sense of smell.

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