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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

AI is also enabling users to do a quick 3D scan of their mouth with their mobile phone, so they can see their potential new smile in a matter of minutes, Skinner says. The hospital has instead invested in between 20,000 and 25,000 mobile phones for its workforce. There are indications the voice market is slowing.

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New framework: 2013 and beyond – What will appear and disappear in our lives

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3D printing in the home. Flexible, foldable mobile phones. Space tourism. Here is the full list in text form (in no particular order): APPEARING. Augmented reality glasses. Thought control. Personal DNA testing. Digital butlers. Voice control TV. Customized medicine. Pay by fingerprint. Electric sports cars. Empathic robots.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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She has particular knowledge of architecture and urban planning, including a PhD which applied Delphi technique to predict the impacts of introducing tourism to heritage areas. She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state.

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