The Year 2020, As Seen By the Scientists Who Will Take Us There
Leading scientists present their 2020 visions The journal Nature, ever the forward-looking publication, is finished with all of this best-of-the-last-decade nonsense. To celebrate the dawn of a new decade, the editors tapped experts across the scientific community, asking them simply "where will your field be ten years from now, and how will we get there?" Our favorite five predictions are collected below. SEARCH Search is only ten years old, says Google's Director of Research Peter Norvig. So imagine what it's going to be like when it's twice the age it is today. "The majority of search queries will be spoken, not typed, and an experimental minority will be through direct monitoring of brain signals." But while the thought of beaming movie times and YouTube vids directly to the brain is incredible, the obstacles search faces in the next decade are the same fundamental ones it faces today. Google and its comrades/competitors...