Nature
News: Ten years ago this month, Google's first employee
turned up at the garage where the search engine was originally
housed. What technology at a similar early stage today will
have changed our world as much by 2018? Nature asked some
researchers and business people to speculate
âmdash; or lay out their wares. Their
responses are wide ranging, but one common theme emerges: the
integration of the worlds of matter and information, whether it
be by the blurring of boundaries between online and real
environments, touchy-feely feedback from a phone, or
chromosomes tucked away on databases.
