12 crackpot tech ideas that just might work

12 crackpot tech ideas that just might work

12 crackpot tech ideas that just
might work
Technologies that push the envelope of the plausible capture our curiosity almost as quickly as the could-be crackpots who dare to concoct them become targets of our derision. Here are a dozen, from the harebrained to the practical, that have a history of raising eyebrows and just might have a hand in transforming the future of the enterprise.
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    12 crackpot tech ideas that just might work

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    Autonomic computing

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    DC power

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    Total information awareness

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    Desktop Web apps

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    E-books

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    Superconducting computers

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    Solid-state drives

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    Semantic Web

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    Quantum computing and cryptography

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    Artificial intelligence

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    Holographic and phase-change memory

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    Project Blackbox

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    See more top technology ...

February 19, 2007
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