This article was taken from the October 2015 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.

Rana El-Kaliouby

Chief strategy and science officer, Affectiva "Our devices will have an emotion chip, much like a GPS location chip. It will use optical sensors, and perhaps other sensors, to read your emotions - your facial expressions, tone of voice, your physiology. This chip will also drive actions in response to your emotions. My mirror could sense I am stressed, and communicate this to my social robot, car and wearable phone-watch-health device, so that these adjust the way they interact with me. In this mood-aware internet of things, the emotion chip - always activated with our permission - will make our technology interactions more genuine and human."




Winfried Hensinger

Professor of quantum technologies, University of Sussex

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"With the speed of wireless internet increasing, the location of the actual data processing will not be on your personal device, but on a distant, more powerful machine connected via the cloud. Such computers may belong to the general extremely powerful quantum class that will be developed in ten to 20 years. These technologies will, in just a few milliseconds, crack problems which would take the fastest conventional computer millions of years. Everything from breaking codes to searching data sets to the creation of new materials."

Denise Gershbein

Executive creative director, Frog Design


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"Personal computing has come to be defined first by an individual's unique social access to the internet, and then by the device they use. It follows that, ten years from now, personal computing devices won't be singular and personal. They'll be more distributed as points of access: screens, sensors, data, processes and platforms. It will not be the watch on your wrist or the phone in your pocket. Your 'device' will be your digital identity, used like a key to enter the system from any number of screens and actions."

Charles M Lieber

Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University

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"Personal computing will become very, very personal. Currently, our interface is through the peripheral nervous system - input by touch and voice; output to eyes and ears. In a very personal future, we would work directly from our brains, integrating 3D nanoelectronics with our neural networks. We have already created the blueprint for 'innervated' or cyborg tissue and recently shown how electronics can be injected into and intermingled with the brain. To modify Descartes's 'cogito ergo sum', my future of computing is, 'I think, therefore it happens'."


Andy Adamatzky

Director, Unconventional Computing Centre, University of the West of England

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"Personal computing will become intra-personal and intra-cellular. Each human neuron will be hijacked by a self-growing, self-repairing, molecular network. Computers will be networks of polymer filaments growing inside and together with a human. 'Seeds' of the networks will be injected into embryos in the first month of their development. They will form a gigantic network inside the brain. Computers will be inside us. They will span all living creatures in a united computing network."