"The brave new world of the 21st century, with its increasing dependence on new technology, will pose a major nightmare for auditors. Patrick Dixon, author of Futurewise - Six Faces of Global Change, says that smart cards using high-level encryption, inserted into PCs and mobile phones, all networked together, will make tracking money flows extremely difficult.

Video - 100 words per minute - watch video of demo using Dragon NaturallySpeaking live with no editing. As an author, I have used speech recognition to help write books and have also used it for e-mail. The biggest limitation is still processor speed. Having said that, it always catches up in the end and does produce text amazingly quickly if you learn to speek clearly.

On the desk in front of me is a needle – the same size as for blood transfusions. I have just tipped out of it a tiny glass container, no bigger than a grain of rice. Inside is an injectable computer: a chip, power generator, transmitter and receiver. It’s a complete mobile communication system. My wife bought it for me for £25 but she’s worried about electromagnetic radiation and being married to a bionic man.

(Feature article by Dr Patrick Dixon published in The Times - Interface Section 30/12/98 - packed full of accurate predictions).

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