Predicting the future might be a fool's game, but that doesn't stop pundits from reading the bones-- and as far as predictions go, few can be more interesting than those from Apple co-founder (with Steve Jobs) Steve Wozniak. 

Speaking to Forbes, Wozniak predicts a year of cross platform collaboration, data centres and voice control, as well as flexible displays and increasingly popular Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) schemes. Here are the predictions below... Read more...

Vibrating touchscreens, impossibly sharp-eyed equipment, digital taste buds-- these are just three predictions from the 2012 edition of The 5 in 5, the yearly IBM list of future tech predictions for the next 5 years.

The theme for this year is the senses, with 5 forecast categories covering all human senses. Will the computers of the near future lend us superhuman senses? IBM believes so!

Touch: Touchscreens will provide a far more tactile experience than a sheet of glass, IBM predicts. Through infrared and haptic technologies, touchscreens will simulate the physical sensation of touch, such as "feeling" the texture of cloth through an on-screen catalog.

Sight: Image recognition systems will be far more capable, thanks to more advanced pattern analysis systems. Such technologies should find a wide variety of applications, from the recognition of subtle MRI patterns in healthcare to that of customer preferences on Pinterest-style image boards in retail.

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IBM makes a breakthrough in what it calls "silicon nanophotonics" as it integrates optical components with electrical circuits on a single silicon chip using 90nm semiconductor technology.

Silicon nanophotonics uses pulses of light for communications (rather than electricity), providing "a super highway for large volumes of data to move at rapid speeds between computer chips." The technology is ideal for crunching big data, since it pushes terabytes of data through optical fibre at distances ranging from centimetres up to kilometres. 

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