IBM reveals innovations to change future within 5 years

IBM has unveiled the eighth annual "IBM 5 in 5" list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years. IBM lists five predictions that will define the future and impact users at a personal level including the classroom will learn you; Buying local will beat online; Doctors will routinely use your DNA to keep you well;  A digital guardian will protect you online and the city will help you live in it.

This year’s IBM 5 in 5 explores the idea that everything will learn – driven by a new era of cognitive systems where machines will learn, reason and engage with us in a more natural and personalized way. These innovations are beginning to emerge enabled by cloud computing, big data analytics and learning technologies all coming together, with the appropriate privacy and security considerations, for consumers, citizens, students and patients.

Dr Dario Gil, Director, Cognitive Experience Lab, IBM, said, “We know more now than any other generation at any time has known. And yet, we struggle to keep up with this flood of increasingly complex information, let alone make sense of the meaning that is inherent in the massive amounts of data we are acquiring at ever faster rates. By creating technology that is explicitly designed to learn and enhance our cognition we will usher in a new era of progress for both individuals and for society at large.”

The IBM 5 in 5 is based on market and societal trends as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s research labs around the world that can make these transformations possible.