What does the future of innovation hold?
According to IBM's 8th annual "5 in 5" predictions about the direction
of technology, we can all expect to see some drastic changes in our
classrooms, online browsing, how we shop and the cities we live in. Not
only does IBM make these bold predictions, its goal is to help marshal
the changes needed for these to become reality. “We try to get a sense of where the world is going because that focuses where we put our efforts,” says Bernie Meyerson, vice president of innovation at IBM, to VentureBeat. “The harder part is nailing down what you want to focus on. Unless you stick your neck out and say this is where the world is going, it’s hard to you can turn around and say you will get there first. These are seminal shifts. We want to be there, enabling them.”
IBM's latest predictions revolve around the idea that machines will start to learn more about us, and get better at reasoning and engaging with us in a more personal and human way. IBM believes these innovations will be enabled by advances in cloud computing, big data and adaptive learning technologies. Computers are becoming smaller and more seamlessly embedded into our everyday lives, and these new technologies will amplify our human abilities rather than replace them.
