IBM Predicts the Next 5 Years of Computing

A reader writes "Shaun McGlaun of Slashgear writes: IBM has offered up its annual list of five innovations that will change our lives within five years. IBM calls the list the 'IBM 5 in 5.' The list covers innovations that IBM believes that the potential change the way people work, live, and interact over the next five years. The five innovations IBM lists this year include touch, sight, hearing, taste, and smell. "

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[Anonymous Coward]

I wouldn't trust these people to predict what they were having for lunch today.

uh, try again

[Tablizer]

Dammit, I want a flying car, NOT #@&% smellavision!

Okay, I'll watch (sniff?) your smellavision if you put it in my flying car, deal?

Re:IBM has no crystal ball

[Jawnn]

Still bitter about having been suckered into buying that PC Jr., eh?

Cringely has a better track record...

[tekrat]

...of making such predictions.

IBM's only prediction that has worked out for them is that "we will continue to sell outdated mainframes and hugely profitable service contracts because businesses have such an entrenched ecosystem of software that they can't dig their way out of it in 5 or even 10 years."