#4 Buying local will beat online

Online sales have boomed worldwide last year, and many physical retailers have gone out of business as they are unable to compete with online megastores like Amazon and eBay. But IBM believes innovations for physical stores in the coming years will make buying from local retailers more beneficial to the consumers. The innovations will bring the power of the web right to where the shoppers can touch it. The web can make sales associates smarter, and can deliver more information to the store shelves. With these technologies stores can anticipate what a shopper most wants and needs.

#3 Doctors will use your DNA to keep you well

IBM wants computer to help doctors understand how a tumor affects patient down to their DNA. They will then be able to come up with the medication that will best work against cancer. “The ability to correlate a person’s DNA against the results of treatment with a certain protocol could be a huge breakthrough,” said Meyerson, the vice president of innovation at IBM.

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