mike_barton
Editor

Your turn: Predict the next big thing

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Feb 20, 20071 min

From the far-fetched to the practical, we highlighted 12 technologies that have a history of riding the thin edge between harebrained and brilliant. Yet each has the potential to significantly shake up some aspect of the enterprise down the line.

So, bust our your crackpot meter and weigh in on whether these could-be pie-in-the-sky notions have a future by commenting via these links: Solid-state drives, DC power, Total information awareness, Artificial intelligence, Quantum computing and quantum cryptography, Desktop Web apps, Autonomic computing, Semantic Web, E-books, Superconducting computing, Holographic & phase-change storage, and Project Blackbox.

If you don’t see a past or present contender you’d like to nominate, or you just want to have your say, send us your ideas or comments in the box below.

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Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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