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Unveiled today, the second 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.

The list 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 could make these innovations possible.

In the next five years, our lives will change through technology innovations in the following ways:

It will be easy for you to be green and save money doing it: A range of "smart energy" technologies will make it easier for you to manage your personal "carbon footprint". As data begins to run through our electrical wires, dishwashers, air conditioners, house lights, and more will be connected directly to a "smart" electric grid, making it possible to turn them on and off using your cell phone or any Web browser. In addition to alerting you about leaving appliances on when they could be off to conserve energy, technology will also provide you with up-to-date reports of electrical usage, so you can monitor how much you are spending and how much energy you are putting out, just like you can track your cell phone minute usage today. Intelligent energy grids will also enable utilities to provide you with the option to use green energy sources, like solar and wind, to fuel your home, and innovations in solar and wind technology will bring cost-efficient options to a utility near you.

The way you drive will be completely different: In the next five years, a coming wave of connectivity between cars and the road is going to change the way you drive, help keep you safe, and even keep you out of traffic jams. Technology is poised to keep traffic moving, cut pollution, curb accidents, and make it easier for you to get from point A to B, without the stress. The cities you live in will find a cure for congestion using intelligent traffic systems that can make real-time adjustments to traffic lights and divert traffic to alternate routes with ease. Your car will have driver-assist technologies that will make it possible for automobiles to communicate with each other and with sensors along the road -- allowing them to behave as if they have 'reflexes' so they can take preventive actions under dangerous conditions. Your car will automatically tell you where traffic is jammed up and find you an alternative route to take.

http://www.physorg.com/news117213808.html

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Living The Future in the Communications Futures Testbed
A Proposal to MIT, the CFP sponsors & everybody interested
Purpose of This Proposal
Propose the establishment of a large scale test bed at MIT to experiment with existing and novel application concepts based on existing, upcoming and
not yet conceived networking concepts and technologies
For that: Clarify the
• WHY (Drivers)
• WHAT (Content)
• HOW (Operation & Organization)

cfp.mit.edu/events/slides/jan06/Dirk-Trossen.pdf

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Monday, January 23, 2006
High-Tech Gardening
Gardeners now communicate with each other and monitor their plantings with the latest technologies.
By Associated Press
Gardeners now communicate with each other and monitor their plantings with the latest technologies.
By Associated Press

NEW MARKET, Va. (AP) -- A garden tool growing more popular by the season doesn't have a handle, won't belch smoke, isn't noisy and leaves no dirt on your hands. It's a computer and it's changing the way we do our planting and harvesting.

Farmers have been using computers for years for such things as measuring milk production from their cows, drawing up profit and loss statements, keeping track of livestock breeding cycles and maintaining inventories -- often emailing feed and seed orders to their local co-op. Some farmers have become adept at buying and selling their implements, tools and other gear on eBay, a popular online auction site.

Now it's the home gardener's turn. Gardeners are using computers for everything from operating lawn-sized irrigation systems to determining how much insecticide should be dusted on tomato plants, from running digital weather stations to logging the return of the first migrating hummingbird.

www.technologyreview.com/TR/wtr_16179,323,p1.html