IT sector’s colossal name IBM, has announced the 5 innovations that will enter and change the course of our lives in the upcoming 5 years. The innovations that will completely change our lives, according to IBM, are as follows:
1- Everybody’s gene map will be charted: In 5 years for a really insignificant sum, people’s genetic maps will be charted and their risks of getting diseases and which ones, their body weaknesses, and potential threats to their healths will be identified. This way, personal diets, medication and therapies will be possible.
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2- Voice command system will be used on computers: Thereby allowing for voice searching over Google for what we are typing for as an example.
3- Everybody will have a digital assistant: Everybody will have a personal assistant in their cellphones and they will provide us help with any topic like a real assistant.
4- Forgetting will be a thing of the past: Our house will live with us too. Who we have talked to, where we have put what will be analyzed second by second and will answer any question that will cross our minds instantly.
5- Electricity will be generated from pavements: Asphalt that is used in pavements, paints and other insulating materials that are used at home will capture the sunlight, producing from it electricity. Street lights will be powered using this energy.
Other than these, there are some innovations that are existant in IBM’s 5 year plan that are absolutely mind-blowing:
1- Software for smart automotives: In this context sensor, GPS and satellite receiver technologies will be completely renewed. This way, the autos will recognize each other and drivers will get a new system that will enable them to enjoy their ride. Also, the new system will have the ability for cars to communicate in traffic, preventing circumstances that lead to accidents before they even start to form, like icing and exceeding the speed limit. It will also lessen the traffic jams and solve problems like speed control and lane infractions.
2- Passport for food: IBM will design a passport software for food in its 5 year roadplan. This way the consumer will get information about where the food has come from, how they were cultivated, when they were harvested, how much calories they are and so forth, and will be able to arrange their diets consciously. By the use of second generation barcodes, RFID technology and software that will be used with specialized sensors, the information that will be coded in the barcodes will show what steps the food has gone through from the branch of the tree it was procured from to the grocery stand.
3- Smart electricity counters: Other than the projects above, IBM is also developing a software in its 5 year plan in order for smart electricity counters to be produced. With IBM’s new internet accessible smart electricity counter software produced with Houston CenterPoint Energy, along with energy savings made from household appliances, current subjects like global warming will help be prevented. Consumers will be able to control their household appliances with remote access thanks to the mails and messages sent to their email addresses and cellphones by the smart counter, like the air-conditioner saying “Nobody is at home, I am wasting energy. Would you shut me down?” or the water heater warning “I am using too much energy!”.
Although these may seem like scenes and machinery out of a science fiction movie right now, if we compare now and 10 years earlier, doesn’t it seem to everyone that these should be reckoned as the illusions of a daydreaming mind? Share your ideas in the comments.
Ersan Genc is an twenty-year-old engineering student who was born in and still living in Turkey. He has been designing and coding websites since 2000 and mostly likes minimalistic designs that are also alluring. 
