This morning, I attended a Churchill Club breakfast meeting with Hossein Eslambolchi, author, 2020 Vision: Business Transformation through Tecnology Innovation. Mr. Eslambochi, the former CTO of ATT, is an entrepreneur and high-tech adviser and holds over 700 worldwide patents.

10: Next-generation speech recognition (natural language understanding). Speech recognition technology is progressing 10x faster than Moore’s Law. There will be an automation of what you want, when you want it via speech.

9: Knowledge Mining. Mining has transitioned from pure data to information mining, and will transition again to knowledge mining, which will open the door to new services, including improved security. Data is currently doubling every 3 years, and in ten years, will double every 11 seconds.

8: Open Source components will dominate at the edge of the network. Open source software will be a big part of this and will win over propriety software.

7: Broadband will be ubiquitous. By 2015, there will be 1/2 billion broadband users worldwide. In addition, we will go to having 3 mb/sec capability to 40 mb/ sec by end of the decade and 1.2 gb/sec by 2020. Between 2010-2013 Moore’s Law will end, and nano-computers will rise.

6: E-collaboration – peer-to-peer applications will dominate the workplace. There will be a revolution of multi-input-output middleware.

5: Sensory Networks: Prediction: The VIN will be replaced with an IP address and you will be able to tune your car while driving to the office. RFID is important but not sufficient.

4: Wireless Internet access proliferates. Universal fiber access is cost-prohibitive, and WIFI and WIMAX will co-exist. By the end of 2008, there will be 2 billion mobile phones worldwide, and 75 million LAN hot spots.

3: Personal Networks will be free and common.

2: Security will have to be better addressed – security vulnerabilities result in $25 Billion loss. Much could be accomplished through simply writing better software code. Fishing / Farming attacks have increased 30X in the past 12 months.

1: Internet / Emerging networks ready for a sextuple play: 1, voice, 2, video, 3, wireless, 4, gaming, 5, sensory networks, 6, data