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E-disclosure: 2014 & beyond

Mark Surguy, Rob Jones & Tracey Stretton predict where law, technology & business are going in 2014 when it comes to e-disclosure

If you are interested in predictions you could go to www.futuretimeline.net and spend some time browsing through fascinating topics like the breakthrough in cryptopreservation, the future of wearable computers, the growth in super-computing and the emergence of exaflop machines capable of carrying out a quintillion (a million trillion calculations per second) and what the earth will look like if all the ice melts. There is a timeline of the future based on detailed research including an analysis of current trends, long-term environmental changes, advances in technology, future medical breakthroughs and the evolving geopolitical landscape. You can click on the timeline for any particular year and see what might happen. So for 2014 you will read that the Internet will have greater reach than television, Google Glass will be launched to the public, most telephone calls will be made by the Internet and smart watches will be the

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