10 – DIGITAL LIBRARIES

You might want to check out Google Book Search, its a very good example. There will come a point in time when any factual based question can be answered online.

9 – GENE THERAPY AND / OR STEM CELLS

A lot of deseases involve inherited conditions – as they are pass through your genes. Good news, scientists are working to change those genes and trick defective cells into growing correctly.

8 – PERVASIVE WIRELESS INTERNET

That implies the possibility of full connectivity between any two random devices. Want to check your burglar alarm from your cell phone? It’ll be easy.

7 – MOBILE ROBOTS

 We may see convoys of robot trucks on the highways. Admittedly, they’ll probably have more initial acceptance in warehouses, handling pick-and-pull chores.

6 – BETTER CHEAPER SOLAR CELLS

In less than ten years the cost of solar energy could be at parity with the cost of electricity from the grid, and solar cells could be standard features in new residential construction. 

5 – LOCATION BASED COMPUTING

Instead of clicking an icon on a browser screen, you can walk outside, point your cell phone at an actual three-dimensional thing (presumably, a building that houses a business), click the phone, and get information about (or jump to the Web site of) whatever you were pointing at. As well as servers with Internet address, there will be servers with geographic coordinates.

4 – DESKTOP 3-D PRINTING

Instead of going to the store for your next gadget, you might download a design of your choosing and generate it in your desktop 3-D printer. The next step will be to design your own gadgets, post the designs, and sell them, etc. Toys, kitchenware, and decorative household items should be fair game, at least. Cottage industry, here we come!

3 – MOORE’S LAW UPHELD

The law, stated by Intel cofounder Gordon Moore in 1965, implies that available computer power can be expected to double every other year. For at least two decades pundits have been pointing out barriers to the law’s fulfillment, and the chip industry has been smashing those barriers. Currently they can’t agree if the law has a couple of more decades of life left, or 600 years. Either way, in terms of available computing power, it’s clear that we ain’t seen nothing yet.

2 – THERAPEUTIC CLONING

Forget the stories about generating identical copies of a particular sheep or person. The whole idea behind cloning all along has been to grow replacement organs or tissue in a vat, which the body would see no reason to reject. Cancerous or damaged organs could be replaced by new, disease-free clones of themselves.

1 – THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY

Instead of guzzling imported oil (and being at the mercy of oil suppliers) we could turn water into hydrogen and burn that (or use to charge fuel cells.) Meanwhile, the only byproduct of the combustion of hydrogen is … more water! However, hydrogen storage remains a thorny issue, due to its low density, and hydrogen may end up being only one of many interlocking components that replace the current oil economy.

According to Forbes, 80-year-old Hiroshi Yamauchi, a Japanese businessman who has the country’s highest net worth for $7.8 billion is the richest man in Japan. He is the former president of Nintendo, after 55 years at Nintendo, Yamauchi stepped down in 2005 but still owns significant stock in the Japanese company.

In a meeting with Microsoft employees last Friday, Steve Ballmer said “If the Yahoo deal doesn’t happen, we know that there’s a different set of things that we’ll wind up investing in.” It seems that he’s listed a few other companies on his shopping list. Ballmer told his Microsoft colleagues. “Yahoo is not a strategy; it’s a part of a strategy”. A handful of other companies are eyeing by Microsoft as possible acquisition targets. Although it is an underlying fact that Yahoo does lead in banner advertising, it is dangerously struggling against Google in remunerative keyword-search advertising.

It is a fact that there is an ongoing World Food Crisis and it seems that there is no easy way to fix this problem. Good news though, a team of researchers are putting a Genomics project to hasten the modern rice genetics. On a simpler note, it is a search for strains of rice that have traits like higher yields, desease resistance and a wider range of nutrients. The project advocates the pursuit of Super Hybrids. Rice is the main staple food for more than half the world’s population. The world’s population has increased precipitously and its an underlying fact that rice production can hardly keep up. This project if not antagonized by inevitable constraints could definitely make a difference in the long run. But what about the rest of us who are in great doubt, are we willing to embrace this change if time and technology permit it. Some of us if not most of us still prefer to eat food with insect bites than those without blemishes. The biggest question is can it really help end the world hunger or is it just a commercial move to make someone famous and opulent within the realm of technology and poverty. Is this purely just scientific manipulation or are they really eager to end this problem.