This is a goood example of how unknowable the future is. No one has a clue as to what is coming up next. Some people may be working on something they know will make a big splash. That, however, is much like a stopped clock that is right twice a day. No one really knows what others are up to. The one thing you can say about futurists is that they have never predicted anything important correctly. I know I'm making a big deal out of this. I guess I just get the feeling a lot of media people like to think they have their finger on the pulse of what is to come. They don't. I think it is the nature of things that what really ends up happening has to start out as a secret. If it doesn't just the attention it recieves makes it take a turn that no one would have predicted.Smart Mobs - The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold: "U.S. and Australian researchers have 'created what they call a new class of creative beings, 'the semi-living artist' -- a picture-drawing robot in Perth, Australia whose movements are controlled by the brain signals of cultured rat cells in Atlanta.'"