Yves Smith — Wolf Richter: NSA Revelations Kill IBM Hardware Sales In China

The CIA calls this kind of consequence "blowback."

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Wolf Richter: NSA Revelations Kill IBM Hardware Sales In China
Yves Smith

Technological innovation in the works

IBM predicts that over the next five years technology innovations will change the way we work, live and play in the following ways: 

• Energy: People power will come to life  - using local motion
• Security: You will never need a password again - biometrics
• Mind reading: no longer science fiction - electronic control of devices using by sensing brain functioning
• Mobile: The digital divide will cease to exist - mobile devises spread communications technology inexpensively
• Analytics: Junk mail will become priority mail - priority sorting and delivery  of messaging

Read the rest at IMB

The Next 5 in 5
(via The Economist)