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Five Ideas That Will Reinvent Computing
prostoalex writes "PC Magazine looks at 5 ideas that will reinvent computing. IMAX-quality movies at home with new projectors, a mid-air mouse that requires no flat surface, a home quantum computer, a router-based peer-to-peer system, and a man-made brain all made the list."
Before these great brilliant minds of the 21st century start whacking away at making these technological monstrosities there are obstacles to go cross and barriers that have to be broken. One of these barriers is to stop calling technological achievements as "man-made" and pick a gender-neutral term.
"Man-made brain" -- what a terrible example of male chauvinism. Lets toss in a few aspects of modern humanity into the fray before we focus on computing and nerdware (tm). Solutions to some of these social problems are less than spectacular in technical complexity yet they are things which technocratic experts fail to talk about.