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iQuestions Faculty, Pat Gelsinger 
 
 
Question: 
 
Where are some of the key trends in technology going over the next 5, 
10 or 20 years? 
 
Answer:  
 
Key trends in technology over the next five, ten, or twenty years—
well, if I could predict all of those, boy, I wouldn’t have to work 
anymore. I would just sit back and invest in the stock market 
appropriately.  
 
These things are hard to predict. But a few things that are going on 
today that we see could have a really big impact for the future. One is 
this idea of what we call Web 2.0— the evolution of the internet to 
become social, to become interactive, to become pervasive, and to 
become globally-connected in a powerful way. 
 
The result of that is, the way that we work is not just going out and 
reaching a web page anymore. The idea of Web 2.0 is that it becomes 
integrated into every aspect of your life, as well as in your business.  
 
Key things that we’re doing in the silicon are some of the trends in 
multi-core. The result of these multi-core processors is the fastest 
improvement in performance that we have delivered in the history of 
semiconductors and computers, increasing more rapidly than ever 
before. We’re going to make applications possible.  
 
Things like jeans-folding, things like global climatology, things like 
absolute understanding of molecules at a level never understood 
 
 
before are now going to become practical because of the level of 
computing that we’re going to enable. 
 
Maybe a final one is everything is wireless and mobile. Today, 
everything that you get over a wire will become wireless. You’ll be 
broadband internet connected any place you go, with high-bandwidth 
connectivity for internet connections, for voice connections, for video 
connections, for interactive communication and video conferencing. All 
of those will be enabled for the future— and not just the mature 
markets, but literally every human on the planet will get connected to 
the internet over the next couple of decades. And that will change 
society. It will change the world.  
 
That’s the future that I’m excited about being a part of in helping to 
create.  
 
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