Human AI
I’ve just been looking at Amazon’s new “Mechanical Turk”. The concept is that you get paid a small amount for doing tiny jobs that are easy for a human but pretty much impossible for a computer. Supported by their relatively open API for plugging third party stuff into the service, I think this is early indications of a major part of the future. They only have a few jobs at the moment, but I think it’ll grow. Put aside the fact that the total pay for this “work” is fairly low, that’s something that a bit of market competition should fix, and have a think about what this could achieve on a large scale.
I don’t particularly like some of the business practices of Amazon but I think this shows that, like Google, they’re on the leading edge of the future.
I predict that in 5 years time this will have been the engine behind some wonderful new thing - like wikipedia, or ebay, or search engines.
I can’t predict what that thing will be, if I could I’d probably be paid a lot more than I am now 
- Colin