• From President Clinton’s State of the Union address (January 27,
2000):
“These kinds of
innovations are also propelling our remarkable prosperity...
Soon
researchers will bring us devices that can translate foreign
languages
as
fast as you can talk... molecular computers the size of a tear drop with the
power of
today’s fastest supercomputers.”
• Imagine a world where:
• You book a travel reservation from your cellular phone while
driving in
your
car without ever talking to a human (database query)
• You converse with someone in a foreign country and neither
speaker
speaks
a common language (universal translator)
• You place
a call to your bank to inquire about your bank account and
never have to remember a password (transparent
telephony)
• You can ask questions by voice and your Internet browser returns
answers
to your questions (intelligent query)