"On June 26, 2007, IBM unveiled Blue Gene/P, the second generation of the Blue Gene supercomputer. Designed to run continuously at one petaflops, it can be configured to reach speeds in excess of three petaflops."
"modeling an entire human organ to determine drug interactions. Drug researchers could run simulated clinical trials on 27 million patients in one afternoon using just a sliver of the machine’s full power"


"Blue Gene/Q will reach 3-10 petaflops."

T-Mobile WiFi Phone

http://blogs.business2.com/business2blog/2007/06/call-it-the-why.html

Desktop hard drives will be able to store 5+ years of music in 2009.

3D Images-Haptics

http://physorg.com/news102143902.html

"Justin Rattner, Intel's CTO, noted that Larrabee will be their 'first tera-scale processor' and that it is aimed at a 2010 release, or possibly 2009 if things go especially smoothly.

Justin also reiterated that Larrabee will deliver 'well in excess' of one teraflop of processing power."

http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/06/big-in-japan.html

Second Life and Google Earth Combined

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18911/

Laser Surgery

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/06/raydiance

"According to Nitin Borkar, the chip has terabytes of core-to-core bandwidth to match its teraflops of processing."

A hard drive in a $1,000 computer will be about a petabyte in 2017.
There will probably be about a terabyte+ of RAM then.

The Russian Federal Space Agency says that they plan to be mining helium-3 from the moon in 2020.

"A plot of the growth of the semiconductor industry, and the growth of the gross national product... The curves cross in something like 2020."
-Gordon Moore, An Intel Founder

http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=439

The human body will basically be able to be simulated on a supercomputer in 2014.

Another possible "virtual" gadget: force field containers.

http://advancednano.blogspot.com/

"The cell processor is going to be a teraflop by 2010."

http://www.amazon.com/Decoding-Universe-Information-Explaining-Everything/dp/067003441X

RFID: The End of Privacy

"Imagine this: you walk into a local store and within seconds the people on duty know your pants size (and how much it fluctuates), that you prefer chocolate ice cream, that you buy a new tube of hemorrhoid cream every three months or so, which stores you usually shop in, your credit rating, and the number of miles currently on all four of your tires - and that's just for starters. Science fiction? No, science fact: the technology is already here. It's just a matter of deploying it. "

Smaller than grain of sand RFID

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/8240a311ed203110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Hitachi plans to sell RFID in 2009...

"NASA Building Nanobot Swarm"

http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=33663721

In 2029, supercomputers will be about a million times faster than the human brain.

Youtube on mobile phones by 2008

http://www.physorg.com/news100601322.html

"Military Target: Solar-Beaming Satelites"

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/post.html

"The military has funded MIT to come up with Internet in the brain by 2018."
(not sure about credibility of the source)

"In 2010, [Toyota] intends to start selling next-generation household robots to help people receive visitors, raise children and provide nursing care for sick and elderly patients, company officials said.

With the birthrate declining and the population aging, Toyota expects these robots to be in high demand to make up for labor shortages, especially in the services industry, the officials said.

The company expects robot-production to become a major business unit following its automobile and housing divisions, the officials said. A liaison group will be set up with Toyota affiliates, including auto parts maker Denso Corp., to further advance robot technologies."

Microsoft Surface

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271552687/bctid933742930

"We aren't just getting better computers. The exponential improvements in computation are fueling exponential trends in all areas of technology. To picture this we have to add a z-axis to our graph."

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20070606/

People probably won't need to sleep in 2030 because of nanorobots...

"Future Science Could End Need To Eat Food, by 2030"

http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtopic=15431

"To feed each of our trillions of cells the precise formula of nutrients needed throughout the day requires advance computer-crunching technologies not expected until the late 2020s."

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"Experts predict that by 2015, a comprehensive personal genome is expected to be available for under a $1,000."

Neuromemory chip

http://sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0306422B-E7F2-99DF-3809798634B2D416&chanID=sa003

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism

http://www.enterblog.com/200503280225.html

Nanorobot-related

http://www.physorg.com/news100176842.html

The movie Faceoff could kind of be a reality in 2015 with augmented reality.

The $1,000 genome should be possible in a few years.

Around 2001, "while working on his doctoral thesis, Hubert created a universal 'pick-and-place' nano-assembly machine, capable of picking up and assembling thousands of atoms of almost any material at one time. His device could potentially be used for moving and patterning segments of DNA strands, ultimately enabling doctors to discover genetic-related diseases in a matter of minutes—long before the patient showed any symptoms.

In 2000, Hubert received a patent for his plastic memory chip. Composed of aluminized plastic, it is mechanically flexible and cheaper to produce than a silicon chip, but still capable of storing digital information, even when the power is off. The design is ideal for smart cards, digital cameras and portable computational devices."

Automation of Medicine

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_5831343?nclick_check=1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/singularity/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Garis

RFID In The Hospital

http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/3360/1/1/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McKibben

http://www.terasemcentral.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9183472242914482898&q=kurzweil

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RFID [or something like it] could allow totally automatic checkout at a store.

Cell phones could be embedded in credit cards.

http://www.montereyherald.com/business/ci_6026761

http://users.lycaeum.org/~lux/meta/well.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_society

"40%[-58%] efficient solar cells to be used for solar electricity"

http://www.physorg.com/news99904887.html