IBM:

Unveiled today, the third annual "IBM Next Five in Five" is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years:

* Energy saving solar technology will be built into asphalt, paint and windows
* You will have a crystal ball for your health
* You will talk to the Web ... and the Web will talk back
* You will have your own digital shopping assistants
* Forgetting will become a distant memory

The Next Five in Five is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s Labs around the world that can make these innovations possible.

From the archive:

Forget, for a second, the image of fat-cat plutocrats walking away with taxpayer money.

Also:

Forgetting, or willed ignorance, is the preferred strategy of many beef eaters.

From way back:

Presumably man’s spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems. He has built a civilization so complex that he needs to mechanize his records more fully if he is to push his experiment to its logical conclusion and not merely become bogged down part way there by overtaxing his limited memory. His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important.

Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years