The future is here already, they say, and in the field of technology it’s certainly true that events are unfolding fast. Here at Looking Forward 3000, we take pride in our ability to bring you the best articles and the most up-to-date information about technological developments. In fact, next month, we will have been predicting the future with great accuracy for exactly a decade. Happy Birthday to us, then, and to celebrate, we're offering some fantastic prizes in our competition (click here,or on the link below to enter). On this website, you'll be ableto find the latest developments in technology, as well as our predictions for what is going to happen in the near (and not so near) future.In our feature article you can find out why computers cannotyet translate successfully from one language to another. We've grown used to being able to have what we want at the touch of a button or the click of a mouse. We have online dictionaries with huge databases, so why can’t we use them to translate perfectly into other languages? As Paul McIntyre explains, English has many words with similar meanings. Consider chair and seat – how would a piece of software know which one is best suited to the context? And how would a machine know how to translate Take a seat! as Sit down! rather than Pick upa seat!, for instance, or, in American English, He got the chair, meaning He was sentenced to death in the electric chair? Of course, we can also use these two words as verbs (as in to chair a meeting, or The restaurant seats 200 people). For all the millions of pounds and many years spent on development, we still need people to translate for us if we don't want to end up with mistakes in the text because a machine does it literally, word for word. Yet we will have better machine translation in the future, and experts are making progress using a similar method to predictive text on mobile phones.Read more ...There’s also a new article on technology in the home. Jeremy Fletcher looks into intelligent labour-saving devices, including the Smart Manager fridge, made by LG. For around €2,000, you
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