Exciting Times ahead

After attending the Town-hall meeting with Nick Donofrio the Executive Vice President Innovation and Technology of IBM i felt i am lucky to be in the evolution period of many great technologies and ideas.

Nick spoke about many technologies and ideas and i think the most important one is the 3D-Internet. I feel it has the potential to take the centre stage. Just think about this, instead of the present shopping sites imagine walking around the shop and trying things you are looking to buy virtually sitting infront of your computer. IBM helped one of its client to open its shop in 3D-Internet and is investing a huge sum in this technology and i feel it has the potential to just push aside the current form of Internet. You can have a taste of the 3D-Internet here.

Among a lot of amazing ideas Nick spoke about for me the most catchy, crazy, awesome and ambitious idea is connecting the water bodies of the earth. As we know there are lot of water bodies on this earth but on wrong places. Nick said IBM is sponsoring a project which links all the water bodies on this globe.

One of the latest problems i came to know is about handling data which is being generated daily around the globe. Nick said research in this field is important as lot of data being generated and there is need to find a way so that we will be able to organize and search for the information easily. At that moment i felt the problem is nearly solved by the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.I could understand the problem only after he mentioned that daily 15 peta bytes of data is generated. That is huge because as far i know yahoo’s storage capacity is around 6 peta bytes and rest of them wont be too far way from it. The problem of search is far from being solved and it is now exponentially growing.

Thanks to nick i left the hall feeling pretty much excited to be around in such fascinating times.