Until I can get an electric car I prefer a plug in hybrid. This gives you an electric motor and also a gasoline motor when you need it. Most car manufactures will sell them in 2010. When most people use the plug in hybrids we will cut oil imports by half.
Software to translate languages is progressing slowly. I think software to do good translations between the 10 most popular languages will happen in 30 years. If we could make translation into a game and have tournament competitions then progress would be faster.
I think a good tournament competition might be to have 20 competing programs translate 10 pages of text. Then 1,000 people on the internet answer 50 multiple choice questions based on reading 1 translation. The translation with most correct answers is the best translator. If this was a semiannual competition then in 10 years we would have excellent software translators.
I think a good tournament competition might be to have 20 competing programs translate 10 pages of text. Then 1,000 people on the internet answer 50 multiple choice questions based on reading 1 translation. The translation with most correct answers is the best translator. If this was a semiannual competition then in 10 years we would have excellent software translators.
Why was this prediction closed?