IBM showcases five major innovations: Reading mind is no longer an illusion

IBM showcases five major technological innovations that are about to change the world, passwords, junk emails or extinction

On December 19, 2011, the United States International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) released its latest annual report, which predicts five innovative technologies that will change the way people live and work in the next five years.

According to this report, the human body’s own power generation, biometric passwords, magic reading skills, digital sharing technology, and spam nemesis have become the five most anticipated technological innovations in the future. Maybe, with the maturity and application of these technologies, the future of human work, life and interaction will be revolutionized.

1 Energy: Self-generation becomes real

According to the report, any object that can move or generate heat has the potential to create usable energy. Therefore, some recreational activities in people's daily life, such as walking, jogging, cycling, etc., can provide energy. People should also not ignore the insignificant things around them. They also have unconsciously generated energy, such as computer cooling, and even tap water flowing in water pipes.

Advances in renewable energy technologies have made it possible for individuals to collect these energy from exercise. Those things and sports that seem to be inconspicuous on weekdays, if easily overlooked, will cause great waste. People can collect the energy they generate, accumulate less, and supply electricity to our daily homes, offices, and even entire cities.

“Imagine when you ride a bicycle, if you install a small power collection device on the wheels, you can not only reach your destination as you like, but also produce and save the electricity that makes the lights on your home shine. It will be how green and Healthy things," said IBM Labs staff.

By then, human beings will use everything around them to create electricity through any form and channel. Currently, IBM scientists are looking for ways to decrypt and maximize the use of the energy of the waves to convert electricity into electricity in Irish laboratories. At the same time, scientists are still studying how to minimize the impact of this conversion on the environment.

2 Security: passwords become "past time"

In some big movies, we often see that in the future, when people open their own vaults, they just use their eyes to get a small lens and the vault door will open automatically. The technology in this movie will be It will become a reality in the next five years.

The report pointed out that the unique physiological structure of humans has become the "key" for personal identification. Soon, this will also become a key technology for human security facilities. Research shows that everyone has their own unique biological characteristics. Behind these characteristics is endless data. In the future, biometric indicators such as facial recognition, retinal scan information, and speech information will constitute unique personal DNA network passwords through special software.

With these biometric indicators, intelligent systems will be able to implement instant validation. If these indicators are consistent with the user’s index file, the system will automatically provide people with authorization to use the account. Therefore, when people log in their personal accounts, they no longer need to laboriously compile and memorize complicated letters and numbers. People just need to shout their names to a tiny sensor before the cash machine or like a movie, it's easy and safe to take out cash with the sensor. "Or people will be able to shout at the phone, 'How much money do I have,' and the phone will automatically display your account balance," the scientists said.

3 Heart Reading: It's More Than Fantasy

In the movie "X-Men," Professor X has mastered an admirable and specific function - mind reading, which can directly see people's inner world and thought activities. For many years, this technology was only a “wishful wish” for science fiction fans and movie fans, but IBM’s report stated that people’s “wishful thinking” may soon come true.

IBM scientists are working on how to "knit" the human brain with electronic devices such as computers and smart phones. If people want to just move their thoughts and give their parents a call and report peace, the phone will automatically connect you. Or, if the "otaku" don't want to move when using a computer, just think about where the mouse arrow points, they will follow your thoughts on the screen.

Scientists in the field of bioinformatics have designed headsets with advanced sensors that can "read" people's brainwave activity to identify people's facial expressions, brain excitement and mental concentration, even before people's physical actions. They got their ideas. For example, before the humans raised their hands, the earphones were already "undesirable".

In the next five years, this technology will be used in the game and entertainment industry. In addition, doctors can also use this technique for brain model testing, which may become a “gospel” for stroke patients, and may even help doctors to obtain more information on other brain diseases, such as autism.

4 Information: Removing the "Digital Divide"

In today's international society, the growth of economic wealth is increasingly dependent on people's access to information. However, in the next five years, the rapid development of mobile communication technology will gradually shorten the "gap" between information owners and information scarcity.

At present, the number of Earth residents has exceeded seven billion people. It is predicted that in the next five years, worldwide mobile communication equipment sales are expected to reach 5.6 billion, which means that 80% of the 7 billion people will have a mobile communication device. Due to technological innovations, the cost of mobile phones is getting lower and lower, and prices will drop accordingly. At that time, people will be able to do more things through their mobile phones with just a little more purchasing power and greatly improve their lives.

For example, in India, through the use of voice technology and mobile devices, IBM has made it impossible for illiterate farmers to transmit information using voice records in mobile phones. As a result, farmers can access primary information to check weather reports to help them sow, as well as learn about the doctor's time to enter the village, while positioning the best market price for their agricultural products.

At present, more and more communities have access to more important information through mobile information technology. In addition, these technologies will also provide people with better life services and business models, such as mobile commerce and telemedicine.

5 Communication: Spam emails will disappear

When people open e-mails, they often find mailboxes filled with irrelevant advertising messages. Deleting these spam e-mails is often a headache and helplessness. However, IBM's report stated that this phenomenon will not last long.

This does not mean that companies will reduce or no longer send "useless" advertising emails. Instead, they will use technology to make these advertising-type messages more personal and more targeted. At the same time, email filters will become more and more accurate in the future, and users no longer have to worry about receiving a lot of irrelevant information.

IBM reported that the company is developing a real-time analysis technology that can analyze and integrate personal data based on the user's lifestyle, such as their network preferences and performance on social networking sites, tailoring the users' needs most information.

At that time, if a user is often concerned about a band's news on a browser, IBM's software will only provide this user with a concert ticket sales advertisement for the band, and provide him with mobile phone tickets after capturing this information. Ticketing service. IBM pointed out in the report, "From news, sports, to politics, you will increasingly believe that this technology will know exactly what you want like a 'closed secretary', and you will be able to decide what you want to do."