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Playbook: The Second Coming

Canada-based Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, needs good news like we need oxygen. Once secure in the unique advantages of its products and snug in its cocoon of complacency, RIM woke up too late and rubbed its blurry eyes to note that big fat competition had all but gobbled up its share of the smartphone space. What's more, the iPad had meanwhile begun to redefine computing and mobility. Well, RIM decided to come back with an innovation of its own: the Playbook. At first glance, the eminently holdable, carryable Playbook with its multitasking, Flash, and gesture-based interface, looked like a fitting comeback. But oh, shock of shocks: the Playbook didn't have what was most signature to RIM - an email client, contacts, calendar, your data. Plus it was buggy, but that was small compared to the fact that these core functions were missing. You could only access them if you bridged with your BlackBerry phone. And oh, you had to do that anyway if you wanted connectivity on the go and were out of a wifi zone.Unbelievably, there were also no apps in its app-land, which I recollect someone as describing as a desert. Of course the Playbook didn't sell. Not until they slashed prices, causing the company a loss of — and two CEOs. RIM said it could and would fix everything. New operating system, lots of apps, even if it had to get them from Android, all the email and calendar you wanted, and no bugs. The world waited and waited, though not necessarily with bated breath, because meanwhile a spate of tablets in all sizes began flooding the market — and the iPad 2 looked down from its throne at them all. A rock-bottom stock, a riot, a stampede, a service outage and a new CEO later, Research In Motion has put its Playbook through the defibrillator and brought it back to life with all that it had promised. Finally. Now, when the iPad is about to go into its version 3 and Samsung, HTC and others have carpeted the place with tablets (with more being unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona even as we speak), the Playbook has been relaunched with earnest — and some new features. What's NewThe Playbook's operating system (just called OS 2.0 right now) has been upgraded to what RIM says is a hint at what the eventual BlackBerry 10 system will look like. Those who already own the Playbook can update free and will find that finally, the tablet has what it should have all along: email, calendar, and contacts. What this Messages area has additionally though, is social integration. Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin messages can be seen from within these core apps. You can't update your status etc from here though.  One nice feature is tabbed email with which you can reference one email while you compose another, or put an email you're in the middle of composing on hold, while you type out a quick response to another message. The Playbook's OS 2.0 keyboard includes predictive text, which helps you get things done faster — or get annoyed, as the case may be. The calendar is more informative and relevant with information about what you need to do, reminders and even a one glance idea of how busy you are on going by the size of the dates. Like the inbox, which pulls together all messages, including from multiple accounts you might want to configure, the calendar pulls in information from personal and work appointments, along with social integration. There's also an interesting People View with which you can see your LinkedIn contacts. I'm very happy that the Playbook can do email and calendars — in fact, you could get notifications in stereo from both Playbook and smartphone and figure out which you want to grab — but there's still something deeply ironic about email just arriving on a tablet when the world is seriously talking about whether it's time for email to die of old age. True that the Playbook has moved on from there and included more social integration than other tablets have — and that's nice for those who already own the Playbook -- but you can't sell a tablet on the basis of social integration. Contacts is also rich with information, including on meetings and quick access to video chat. Blackberry Playbook The second critical new thing is the Android player, which is meant to plug in the app gap.  This has been a long-promised addition to the Playbook, getting to the point where there was much scepticism about whether RIM would pull off Android apps on its tablets at all. At the moment, there is an infusion of Android apps, but not a significant amount. It is worth mentioning though that RIM has other interesting and powerful apps in the field of medicine, banking, loyalty and retail and other professional domains. Reviewers benchmarking the Playbook's performance say it is now faster and smoother, though it still has some bugs. But the one feature that's really nice and that works well is the updated BlackBerry Bridge which lets users make a remote of their BlackBerry smartphones. With this in place you can control the Playbook, even inputting text to it through the phone's keyboard (which after all, has been one of the key reasons users love their BlackBerrys). Potential uses are controlling a presentation or output to TV via the Playbook. What's MissingSo is the Playbook now on par with other tablets around? I'm going to take refuge in an American cliché by saying the jury is still out on that one. Is it too little too late? Is it enough? Well, you can't be blamed for scratching your head over why there is still no BBM on the updated Playbook. And why you can only video chat with another Playbook. And why Angry Birds only came to the BlackBerry AppWorld recently and it still has no Skype. The top 50 most-used Android apps are, in fact, still not available. Connectivity is via wifi and that is obviously not going to change through a software update, so if you're on the go, you tether with your smartphone or even a portable wi-fi device. Who Is The Playbook For?There's no question that owners of the original Playbook should update. It's free and adds immense functionality to your tablet. But what about anyone thinking of buying the Playbook now? The Playbook is, after all, not only a robust piece of hardware, but not as expensive as some at Rs 19,990 for the 64GB model.If you already have a BlackBerry phone, you're in business, able to do most things that tablets do in both the work and wonderful time-wasting category. However, stop for a moment to think of whether you will want to carry two devices if your smartphone is one of the larger models. Speaking for myself, I am a big-phone-big-tablet person as long as the big phone doesn't exceed 4.5 inches. Each user will find a certain combination suits. Some people are, after all, only keen on carrying a small holdable phone with just enough to call and message. You could also factor in whether your BlackBerry is a company assigned phone or your own and what phone you think you might like to use in the near future. If you don't own a BackBerry phone, explore other tablets, though not discounting this one if you really like the form factor and the responsive gesture-based way you will interact with the tablet. The Playbook, like the smartphone though, works within the closed BlackBerry ecosystem, so the two devices are best paired.Mala Bhargava is a personal technology writer and media professionalContact her at mala at pobox dot com and @malabhargava on Twitter

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In Good Form

Pico projectors, or pocket projectors as they're more commonly referred to, have always walked a fine line, much like any other ultra-miniaturised product. Make them too small, and they typically scrimp on features and picture quality; make them feature rich and they're just too bulky to carry everywhere. Can 3M's latest model, the feature-rich-on-paper MP180 manage to deliver on both counts? Read on to find out!Form factor wise, the MP180 is indeed large by the usual pack of playing cards standards for this segment, and it's closer in size to a biggish torch, with most of the size taken up by the huge battery. Pocket projector this isn't, though it will still fit very comfortably into a big jacket pocket or just about any small bag. The finish is rubbery, which makes it easy to handle even for the clumsiest of hands.Thanks to its size, connectivity options abound on this baby, so you get a mini-USB port and a VGA/AV port that can take a variety of connectors via adapter cables. Included in the box are a D-Sub adapter and a composite video/stereo audio adapter, along with a USB cable, and a nice little desktop tripod. The projector even features a slot for adding a microSD card, which allows you to add extra capacity to the already impressive 4GB memory built in. This ability is a big win — being able to store presentations, slide shows and videos is hugely convenient, and it supports playback of PPT, XLS, PDF along with a host of other popular office and movie/music formats. Couple this with the two-hour battery backup, and you really don't have to carry a laptop or any cables to the presentation!Fancier still is the fact that this projector packs in Bluetooth file transfer capabilities and … wait for this… built in Wi-Fi so that you can access the Internet and access a presentation or streamed content you've stored on your website! Of course, the most obvious extra is the 2.4inch color LCD screen on top of the unit. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it — you could browse the contents of the built-in memory or load up a website before projecting it onto the nearest flat surface? Except that the MP180 is let down by a horribly poor touchscreen experience. We've been spoiled silly by modern capacitive touchscreens, and the MP180's resistive touchscreen requires more than a firm prod to use. While the menus are still navigable, the text entry experience — say for entering a Wi-Fi password or a website address — is abominably poor. Plus, the MP180 often seems a bit anaemic under the hood, and you're left waiting for menus to appear several seconds after you've quit an application.All the fancy doodads (and the one large bugbear) won't matter if performance is poor, and the MP180 delivers an above average experience. It's bright enough for a 40-inch display in a darkish room, and colors are vibrant and accurate. Contrast is a little disappointing, but that impacts movie viewing more than the office experience. Recommended for the suits who need the capability and the portability.Rating: 7/10Price: Rs 29,900URL: http://bit.ly/yC12Jy Multitasking Mouse Most homes are running out of space, and the consumer electronics industry is responding in good measure, what with the surfeit of all-in-one products — multi-function printers, integrated screen-PC combos and the like. Which is why LG's LSM-100 is such a big (actually rather small) deal — it's one part mouse, one part scanner — talk of multitasking! It looks no different than the average mouse, perhaps a tad taller, but completely forgiven given that it's packing in a hand-scanner underneath. Once you install the bundled software and select the scanning resolution, all you have to do is hold down the Smart Scan button and you're ready to scan documents and photos. It takes some getting used to for best results, but the practice is well worth it. Best, because the device isn't constrained by size like a traditional scanner, users can use it to scan documents larger than what most portable scanners can handle (LG tops its capacity at A3 sized-pages. The scanned image can be saved in JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, XLS, DOC and PDF format and shared to a multitude of social networks. I quite liked its OCR text recognition technology – with this, you can scan and then have the text available for editing/use in a word processor later.  At 3,500, this isn't meant for heavy scanning use, since there's a lot more manual work involved for each scan. A good option for households or businesses with a space crunch and the odd-scanning job to do. Rating: 7/10Price: Rs 3,500URL: http://bit.ly/xYajbZ technocool at kanwar dot nettwitter@2shar

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Free Speech In Shackles

Normally, it gets my goat when a newsperson ends a controversial report with: Clearly, there are many questions — but no easy answers. But when it comes to freedom of speech and the Internet, I have to agree.The right to free speech, both offline and online, has been mired in a tangle of issues for the past few weeks. No one needs reminding of the numerous instances they have focussed on — from the political to the religious to the nonsensical. But the question of the licence to say and do what you like online saw a recent resurfacing when Mr. Sibal raked it up, calling for some kind of regulation of content by the social networks because there was obnoxious and offensive material being churned out. And the latest in the saga of speech is Twitter's new tweet censoring policy, which has outraged many. There are obviously many positions on whether the social web should mean free speech. At one end of the spectrum are users who believe that the Internet is synonymous with free expression. But take pause for a bit and see if you think hardened criminals from within a prison taunting their victims on Facebook is acceptable. Consider whether you think pro-Nazi posts on the social networks (still found without much effort searching) should remain. And there's worse, of course, but many netizens' belief that the Internet will cleanse itself and automatically ignore or weed out the rot, may not be founded in practicality.At the other end of the spectrum of free speech are those people who will react at the slightest imagined provocation. Just go up on the terrace and try shouting ‘I love Bombay' a few times. Because the agenda is control. The already complex problem of what our rights should be on the Internet are further muddled by the different motives coming into the fray. Those who have a vested interest in gaining or retaining power are obviously uncomfortable with opinion becoming rampant online without their blessing. They would far prefer to manipulate it, not hesitating to use the same medium and social networks to push their own opinion. But there are some things that the power mongers should realise. Online, they're dealing with a more aware audience. People who have access to different ideas and influences, people who have really made the Internet what it is, and most importantly, people who have found their voice. Barging in to silence them will only mean they will find another way. Discontent may be expressed on the Internet; it isn't born because of it. Trace it back deep enough and it comes from what is happening in everyday lives. Trample on people hard and long enough, and no Twitter censorship of tweets will prevent the repercussions; but only delay them.As far as Twitter goes, in agreeing to hide tweets in countries where a request is made to do so, is only safeguarding and furthering its commercial interests.That brings us to the other set of powers — the "sovereigns of the Internet", as they're sometimes called; the big companies that also want to control everything. The tussle, here too, is that companies often act without the buy-in of their users — users without whom they are nothing. It's not unthinkable that there should be repercussions there too. How Twitter's selective untweets will work, is not yet clear, but of course, workarounds are already being posted online. On top of all this, we have allowed ourselves to live in an age of fear, where t turns out our speech is not half as free as we thought it was. This is because the threat of violence can always hold it to ransom. This is by no means a byproduct of the Internet, but a reality on the ground. Neither authorities nor netizens nor citizens have managed to do anything about this. And so, "hurt sentiments" can be called up any time to curtail freedom of expression. Your art is not my art. Your religion is not my religion. Your temple is not where I would go. New agendas, new misconceptions, new time-wasting reactions make a messy scenario worse. The world is not of one mind and no one agrees on what is right and what is wrong. How do we expect to decide it for the Internet? And the ever-present question: who is to decide it? But decide it we must, because just as we need some regulations to get along n society, we need some agreement on what goes on the internet. Not the laws and rules rotting in government archives, but rules made by stakeholders who want to shape the Internet to be a shade better than ‘real life' sometimes is. What those rules will be, I can't say. As they say on Facebook, "It's Complicated." mala@pobox.com, @malabhargava on Twitter (This story was published in Businessworld Issue Dated 13-02-2012)

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A Serious Thought

ViewPad, Optimus Pad, Eee Pad, TouchPad. Clearly, adding a "Pad" in a tablet's name isn't enough to emulate the success of the iPad. But what if it's a ThinkPad? Does Lenovo's ThinkPad tablet live up to its hallowed name, or fall by the wayside? With a name like that, you really shouldn't be surprised the ThinkPad tablet's design is a serious throwback to the original IBM ThinkPad notebooks. A raven-black shell, soft matte finish, sturdy build but not the lightest (at 715 grams) or the slimmest (at 14mm) around the block — oh so ThinkPad, isn't it? That said, with its rounded edges, the tablet is comfortable to hold in the hand and the almost rubberised finish doesn't just feel great but also provides a secure grip and is quite rugged. Plain Jane looks aside, this is one tablet that really feels like the serious productivity tablet it claims to be. Straight off, aside from the mini-HDMI-out, SD card and SIM slots, you get a full-sized USB port that you can attach a USB flash drive, an external hard drive, or a keyboard/mouse. Also, noticeably different from the other button-less Honeycomb tablets is the ThinkPad's row of four physical buttons — to lock the screen orientation, launch the browser, a back and a home key — that would have been rather handy had they not been so stiff to operate. Getting to the ThinkPad's screen, this one packs in an almost defacto-for-premium-tablets 10.1in 1,280x800 pixel, IPS display, which features excellent viewing angles and pretty accurate colour reproduction. Front and rear cameras are also part of the package, but to be honest, the rear 5MP one produces the usual mediocre results I've come to expect from tablets, while the 2MP shooter is usable for the video chatting/conferencing needs.  Possibly the real star of the show is the Tablet Pen, which lets you scribble notes in the Notes Mobile app or mark up PDFs or doodle in one of many drawing apps available. I used it during a meeting, and it managed to almost completely decipher my cursive scrawl — quite the accomplishment given how years of keyboards have taken their toll on my handwriting! And I personally love the really cute touch, topping off that pen with a red cap a la the signature pointing stick you'd find on any ThinkPad notebook. The icing on the cake is Lenovo's optional keyboard folio case, which provides one of the best typing experiences available on a tablet by combining a keyboard into a protective case. A full set of dedicated Android shortcut keys is provided along with media controls and Page Up/Down. You also get what looks like a traditional ThinkPad TrackPoint at first, but actually is an optical trackpad. Comes in handy on occasion, and it's safe to say the whole package is about the closest to a laptop experience I've seen on a tablet. Combined with the Pen, the folio case really takes the ThinkPad Tablet to the next level in terms of productivity. Meanwhile, on the software end, you get pre-installed productivity apps, note-taking/OCR and antivirus apps, remote monitoring and wiping apps, plus access to Lenovo's dedicated and carefully vetted app store. Stuff IT managers will simply lap up. Net, there's a lot to like about the ThinkPad. It offers good battery life, a good display and neat add-ons like the USB port and the Pen that really help with taking work on the road. Buy the optional folio case with keyboard built in, and you get possibly the best typing experience this side of a ThinkPad notebook, albeit on a tablet this time around! Bear in mind its chunky profile will deter some buyers looking for the slimmest tab on the market, but the feature set sets it apart as the most versatile option on the market.Rating: 8/10Price: Rs 29,500 (16GB,WiFi), Rs 41,900 (32GB, 3G), Rs 46,900 (64GB, 3G)URL: http://bit.ly/zLCgt5 Fashionable Calling A good pair of headphones often make you look like an air traffic controller when you wear them. Not the case with the Jabra HALO2, which looks more like a slightly oversized hairband, in a seriously stylish sort of way. The cans fold away for decent portability — this also switches them off (and on), which is neat — but the durability of the folding flaps worries me just a wee bit. Not the kind you'd want to throw into a backpack crammed full of stuff. Pair the HALO2 over Bluetooth with your laptop or smartphone, and with its support for the AVRCP Bluetooth connection type, you can control the music playback options (track change, play/pause) from the headphones itself. Looking good does come with some compromise on the audio front. While the talk time for this headset isn't half bad at around 8 hours, the lack of an external microphone means that voice quality on the other end is just about average, as is the music listening experience. Strictly recommended only for the fashion-conscious. Rating: 7/10Price: Rs 6,499URL: http://bit.ly/w73X6H Extended Support If you work on a laptop for extended durations, a notebook stand is one of the best investments you can make for your health, not to mention your laptop's. Try the Cooler Master Notepal Ergostand — it combines a cooling pad, notebook stand and a USB hub, all rolled into a package that's built like a tank. Not only does it bring the laptop up to an ergonomically correct height on your table, but the fan-cooled base also regulates your notebook's temperature, and the cable management clips are a welcome touch. URL: http://bit.ly/w8Nk9hPrice: Rs 3,000   technocool at kanwar dot nettwitter@2shar

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Bringing The World Closer

Facebook has finally filed for its much  anticipated IPO, in a bid to raise $5 billion, leading to a possible valuation of the company of $75 to 100 billion.At the same time, CEO, Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook isn't really a company and isn't about maximising profits. Easy to say when you could soon be among the richest people in the world and already own a private jet - at the tender age of 27. Zuckerberg was addressing shareholders in a letter, describing Facebook as a company to whom profits were secondary, "We don't build services to make money," Zuckerberg wrote. "We make money to build better services." You would think usually, investors would want to hear about growth plans, but Zuckerberg isn't usual and in laying out Facebook's values he's trying to show the strength of the company's fundamentals. Among the driving principles that he said should shape every Facebook employee's behaviour was to always think of Facebook as a social mission; a way to make the world more connected, more open, and a better place.When Zuckerberg mentioned how he wanted Facebook to be a platform where governments could connect with people, I couldn't help thinking of how far, especially at the moment, we were from this vision in the country. In fact, you could almost say that our powers that be have distanced themselves further with social media. When so many in governance have a silent or top-down style, increasingly alienating at least the middle class, Facebook should have been a godsend and helped them to somehow connect, even in some measures, with people. Last week, India added 5,452,980 more users to beat Indonesia. Instead, they went the route of mostly broadcasting their views on social media at the same time trying to tame it, losing out on an opportunity to connect at a time when all we hear is negative and all we see is vituperous election speeches and bickering spokespersons on television. It doesn't take time — only will.It is not surprising then to find that many political leaders have what I think of as a negative footprint on social media.Instead of pages where they could sometimes — even for fifteen whole minutes a week — say something to ordinary people, you'll find collections of fake pages, snarky comments, and well, the hate pages are taken down else you would have found those as well. A handful are regular on Twitter though some not in their own capacity and even fewer are actually engaging with people. Those who do, definitely see a different connect with people than those who stay off or merely maintain a lofty presence. If they had been active, the very thought of the Prime Minister say, using Instagram photos from a trip around the country, wouldn't be such a bizarre idea. Barack Obama does it — and surely he's just as busy.Mala Bhargava is a personal technology writer and media professionalContact her at mala at pobox dot com and @malabhargava on Twitter

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Roll Up For A Flexible Future

It is nice to read a newspaper on a light and large tablet, but what if you can roll it up too? What if you can fold your cellphone like a piece of paper, or you had devices with screens that do not break when dropped? You cannot do these things now because the displays and electronics are rigid structures. Flexible electronics and displays are being developed all over the world, and you can see them incorporated into devices beginning from this year. Take, for instance, the camera developed by John Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois and Urbana Champaign. This tiny device, as big as a small coin, has sensors that curve like the retina of the eye. In fact, the device is called eyeball camera. Because the sensors are curved, and because the curvature can change synchronously with the curvature of the lens, it has excellent zoom capabilities. Unlike multi-lens systems with similar capabilities, the eyeball camera has a single fluid-filled lens. Rogers' work is published this week in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Rogers is one of the pioneers in flexible electronics. He currently serves as the director of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center on nanomanufacturing, funded by the US National Science Foundation. His technique is to use silicon itself, rather than organic materials, in his devices. Rogers makes tiny pieces of silicon connected by coiled wires, and is deposited on plastic sheets using standard manufacturing techniques. When the materials stretch, the wires stretch too. Performance of the device does not deteriorate even when the material is stretched 75 per cent. Considering the business potential of the research, Rogers has set up a company called MC10, and it has concluded an agreement with sportswear manufacturer Reebok to incorporate electronics into its shoes. An electronic-implanted shoe can monitor a runner's performance, among other things. It is the start of a new age of wearable electronics.Bacterial InventionWhen you have a serious problem, and none of your solutions is working, it pays to take a look at how nature would have solved the problem. This is why engineers are turning to biology to solve some of their most intractable problems. Some students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong recently turned to the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. Coli) when faced with the problem of large data storage. The bacteria obliged, paving the way for a technology to store data at extra-high densities. Scientists and engineers have been looking for a while at ways of using bacteria for data storage. A bacterium is tiny, and its components are tinier — so tiny that, theoretically, one gram of bacteria can store information worth 900 terra-bytes (that's space enough to store about a million movies!). The information can also last for thousands of years (the best of today's storage media can manage at best 100 years). In practice, it is not so straightforward as it sounds. One has to find a way of writing the information, another way of keeping it safe from intruders and retrieving this information when necessary. Now scientists are developing methods for these.In 2007, researchers at Japan's Keio University developed a method to store 100 bits of data within an artificial DNA. They used the method to code the equation E = MC2 within a bacteria found in the soil. Now the Chinese team has made a major advance: a method to compress, split and distribute data evenly between bacterial cells. They have a method to encode the data as well as one to locate it. They also use an altered form of the original bacterium that cannot exist outside the synthetic medium. The work is in early stages, and could take years before being applied.(This story was published in Businessworld Issue Dated 07-02-2011)

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Healthcare

We will live almost double the years we do now. The humans of the future will regenerate their body parts. Medicines will assume an even more vital role in improving the quality of future generations2020There will be artificial versions of all key body parts. Brain accidents and Alzheimer's disease will be fully cured by brain implants. Making body spare parts will become an industry. Stem cell pharmacies will be common place Contact lenses will beam words and images into the eye. Computerised nerve stimulation and exo-skeletal robotics will help those with spinal injuries2030A vaccine will eradicate AidsActive skin technology will help blast e-capsules into skin surface that go deep enough to make links to nerve endings, helping cure Parkinson'sVirtual love making will be a reality. Couples will be able to link peripheral nervous systems via active skin for enhanced love making2040Microscopic machines will help repair damaged cells and organs. It will be possible to back up memories and personality traitsThe predictions are compiled from the writings of futurists Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock and The ThirdWave; Ian Pearson, a futurologist with Futurizon who is credited to have an "85 per cent accuracy at the 10 yearhorizon"; Patrick Dixon, business consultant and head of trends forecasting company Global Change; RayKurzweil, author and inventor with interests in optical character recognition and speech recognition; and ThomasFrey, executive director and senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute; among others(This story was published in Businessworld Issue Dated 12-12-2011)

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) involves making intelligent machines — making computers that can do things that humans consider intelligent and even more. Computers will act like human brains, or better them, and will respond to situations and events in ways that are error-free and faster2015 Robots will begin to do jobs such as farming2020Robot rights will emerge as an issue in many countries. There will be debates on the civil rights and legal protection of robotsMind-reading robots that can be controlled by human thought will appear2030Robots will start replacing the bulk of administration employees in large corporations. Artificial intelligence will take over most labour-intensive jobs A card the size of a micro SD card will have the storage capacity of 20,000 human brains2040Robots will be used to sit in crime hotspots, freeing up the police force for other dutiesExabyte (1 billion GB) storage will be available, boosting space-thirsty AI and similar technologiesThe predictions are compiled from the writings of futurists Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock and The ThirdWave; Ian Pearson, a futurologist with Futurizon who is credited to have an "85 per cent accuracy at the 10 yearhorizon"; Patrick Dixon, business consultant and head of trends forecasting company Global Change; RayKurzweil, author and inventor with interests in optical character recognition and speech recognition; and ThomasFrey, executive director and senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute; among others(This story was published in Businessworld Issue Dated 12-12-2011)

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