IBM has unveiled its eighth annual ”IBM 5 in 5” (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that will change the lives of people in five years.
The list has the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years, and the tech company”s role in making them a reality. According to the Washington Post, these innovations are already beginning to emerge through cloud computing, big data analytics and learning technologies. Here are the five predictions that change future: (1) The classroom will learn you: IBM predicts the classroom of the future will give educators the tools to learn about every student and provide them with a tailored curriculum from kindergarten through to employment. In the next five years, IBM said the classroom would learn about each student using longitudinal data such as test scores, attendance and behavior on e-learning platforms.
(2) Buying local will beat online: In five years, new Watson-like technologies could educate sales associates about every product in the store with technologies such as augmented reality and IBM”s recently announced plan to open Watson as an app-development platform. (3) Doctors will routinely use your DNA to keep you well: IBM is beginning to explore opportunities, working with health care partners to develop systems that could reduce the time it takes to find the right treatment for a patient. (4) A digital guardian will protect you online: In five years, IBM said everyone could be protected with own digital guardian that will offer a new level of identity-theft protection, assimilating contextual, situational and historical data to verify a person”s identity on different devices.
(5) The city will help you live in it In five years, as computers learn to understand people”s needs, preferences and behaviors, smarter cities will understand in real time how billions of events occur. Soon it will be possible for cities and their leaders to access and digest new information provided by citizens and knowing which city resources are needed. (ANI)