Five Innovations that Could Change the Way We Live, Work and Play | ITBusinessEdge.com

Five Innovations that Could Change the Way We Live, Work and Play | ITBusinessEdge.com

1. In the next five years, 3-D interfaces – like those in the movies – will let you interact with 3-D holograms of your friends in real time.
2. In the next five years, a whole class of "citizen scientists" will emerge, using simple sensors that already exist to create massive data sets for research.
3. In five years, sensors in your phone, your car, your wallet and even your tweets will collect data that will give scientists a real-time picture of your environment. You'll be able to contribute this data to fight global warming, save endangered species or track invasive plants or animals that threaten ecosystems around the world.
4. Imagine your commute with no jam-packed highways, no crowded subways, no construction delays and not having to worry about being late for work. In the next five years, advanced analytics technologies will provide personalized recommendations that get commuters where they need to go in the fastest time.
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6. Up to 50 percent of the energy consumed by a modern data center goes toward air cooling. Most of the heat is then wasted because it is just dumped into the atmosphere. With new technologies, such as novel on-chip water-cooling systems developed by IBM, the thermal energy from a cluster of computer processors can be efficiently recycled to provide hot water for an office or houses.
   A pilot project in Switzerland involving a computer system fitted with the technology is expected to save up to 30 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, the equivalent of an 85 percent carbon footprint reduction. ( It would be great to do a project-based with students here in NYC to follow this Swedish project and after project, make recommendations to Mayor's council, companies, and communities)
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