dunno about that personal energy harvesting. Any energy extracted from a bike has to be put in at the pedals, and that means working harder as a rider.

Based on the scientific breakthroughs with LENR in the past year, practical, low cost, very local (home) energy production is eminent. This will be a very disrupting technology that will take hold fast and touch most people, businesses, and governments.

I\'m not very sure about this list. Personal energy production sounds interesting but is limited. Are we going to have 5 different connectors on our shirts? my ipod charger doesn\'t fit my blackberry... I would never allow my mind to be read and actually create things to happen. I enjoy my ability to think bad things of people and they haven\'t a clue. Could you imagine thinking of an ex girlfreind and suddenly your phone is calling her? You\'d explain you were mad at her but your wife would never believe you. Filter out information I don\'t need? yeah right. when they get c3po working... then I\'ll believe it. Biological passwords make sense... but it\'s expensive. who is going to pay for it? Probably the tax payers... sigh.

Personal energy harvesting - with people getting more and more inactive, I doubt it. I always hated bicycle dynamos. It\'s like driving with brakes on.
Biological passwords - that won\'t last long. A compromised password can be changed, a skimmed credit card may be replaced, not your fingerprints or retina.
Mind reading - I don\'t even see practical applications working in the laboratory that could compete with hands and fingers. I hope some disabled persons will get some abilities back on the way, though.
No more information gap - except for those 850 million undernourished, this means, I guess.
Computers that know us - definitively. Because if your computer knows you, it\'s manufacturer also knows you. There\'s profit in it!

Well they missed one glaringly obvious thing that should be commercialized within the next 5 years, and that is Watson the Jeopardy champ! I should think something like that ought to be able to out-answer Google search.
So IBM are sitting on a hundred billion dollar sci-fi technology that could be ramped up and deployed worldwide right now, but instead they figure they should focus on micro energy harvesting, as if they had any expertise there. I think they should instead focus on Watson as their #1 core business, and then ask Watson what it thinks will be the next \"5 in 5\". I bet it would have a better idea, if anybody would listen.

re; Adrien
You are already converting energy put in at the pedals into heat every time you use the brakes. Why not convert it into electricity instead?

Bio-passwords - no chance! Todays mega-threat is malware *stealing* passwords - imagine how screwed-up you\'re going to be when one steals your retina login.
A quick visit to the surgeon to change your password? I think not.

Why not a hydrogen powered future.

re; Dawar Saify
Because 1. You loose about half the energy you put into generating hydrogen. 2. Even liquid Hydrogen is a low density fuel. 3. Hydrogen migrates through every material known to man causing more energy loss. Granted some faster than others.

Filter out information I don\'t need?
Who or what decides? Facebook, Google and others already ndo this without permission or notification. Governments and other organizations have done this since organizations existed.
Judges in the USA do this routinely by deciding that certain facts are irrelevant to the case, news services do this to one degree or another--some more obviously than others...even gossips do this filtering.
Reminds me of a government attorney who argued that Freedom of Information Act requests which were \'frivolous\' shouldn\'t be permitted.
Every organization reports \'facts\' with some sort of spin/bias--the better ones admit it.
I don\'t even like to limit my information sources voluntarily, as by definition that avoids knowing about something, and thus provides no basis to determine it\'s relative importance to me.