Despite their esoteric name, neural networks are everywhere.
They are installed in microwave ovens to inform them when food is cooked, they diagnose disease, and tell us when our credit cards are being used fraudulently. Neural networks are frequently embedded in tiny microelectronic devices to make a clever decision about the devices environment. Do you remember the expert systems of the 80's?, well neural networks are the expert systems of the new millenium. Their novelty is that they do not rely on experts. Instead they rely on the fundamental nature of natural systems to behave in a manner consistent with mathematical models that we generally use to descibe them.
We have been developing mathematical models and neural networks for over seventeen years in a broad range of applications. It is possible that we might be able to help your business to exploit this technology to commercial advantage.
1. Smaller faster, cheaper, lighter computers for the desktop. They will be no larger than a DVD drive. They will be silent, and run free software, and much of this will be web based. They will use solid state disks, and large quantities of cheap memory.
2. More powerful mobile phones will largely replace traditional PCs. The screens of mobiles will occupy as much of the phone as physicallly possible. "Soft buttons will have largely replaced mechanical buttons in top of the range phones.3. Sophisticated screen display technology will be available that will allow us to use bigger computer monitors in smaller less likely workplaces.
4. Micro-factories: places of work no bigger than a loft
extension, where budding entrepreneurs labour in their free time
"printing" products with 3D printers and selling their wares
by the internet.