Thursday, September 21, 2006

IEEE news: Sounding out IEEE's fellows

How do some of the IEEE's most distinguished and accomplished members see the future of technology? Spectrum polled 700 of the organization's fellows to find out. A third think we'll eventually have 3D televisions in our homes, but more than two fifths doubt anybody will ever market a quantum computer. Majorities believe that microscale robots will be a reality and that computers will soon be able to process speech and writing with almost perfect accuracy. But there's deep skepticism about "cold fusion" and room-temperature superconductors.

See "Bursting Tech Bubbles Before They Balloon," by Marina Gorbis and David Pescovitz: the link.

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