Possiblities of Nanotech Boggle the Mind

CORONADO, Calif.—According to the technologists parading through this week's dueling futurist conferences, our near-term future will be influenced by advances in data mining, wireless integration, software services and especially the convergence of nano and biotechnologies. But the subject of security—a current and future problem—keeps raising its head.

I've spent the past four days literally being doused by a fire hose of amazing information. Sunday and Monday I spent at Walt Mossberg's "D" conference, listening to Gates, Jobs and a parade of CEOs lay out the state of the now.

I then headed off to Mark Anderson's FIRE (Future in Review) conference, right down the road here. The first day featured a wonderful chief technology officer round-table discussion and talks from Red Hat's Szulik and RSA's Coviello.

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