IBM has long had one of the best research and development
teams in computing.  The IBM Fellows are
highly regarded as some of the best and brightest prognosticators in the
profession.  In IBM’s most recent
predictions they are suggesting that in the future computers will smell, taste,
see, touch and hear better than ever before.
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