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Your e-mails: The future of technology
 SPECIAL REPORT(CNN) -- Technology is a rapidly changing landscape. What is merely an idea now someday could be commonplace. CNN.com asked readers what they hoped would happen in the next 10 years and how it would change their lives for the better. Here is a sampling of their responses, some of which have been edited: After watching the Super Bowl, and seeing the constant bickering between coaches and referees about where the ball actually landed or if the ball actually crossed the plane of the end zone, I feel football needs a tech boost. What if we set up a GPS coordinate system on a football field? There could be a thin wire mesh under the turf, as well as extremely thin strips within the ball itself. That way, on a computer screen, the referees would know exactly where the ball was at all times, reducing the disputes about where the ball actually was. Despite all this, the referees would have to make judgment calls if a situation arose when the ball carrier had his knee down before the ball penetrated the threshold of the end zone. I'm sure that there are many, many problems with this idea, but it is something to think about for the future of not only for football, but for many other sports as well. My iPod will receive streaming audio/video and satellite radio/TV, anywhere in the country. One-touch downloading capability, so if I hear a song or see a show that I like, I can instantly own it. Email phone and other PDA features will also be integrated into it, eventually encompassing an all-in-one digital device. I think Technology will focus on VoIP [voice over Internet protocol], and free utilities on the computer as such, wireless cities, and the businesses trying to stop them. Technology is making everything fun, easier, convenient and not to mention my favorite word in the dictionary -- Free!!! Big businesses are going to continue to fight and make "contributions" to keep everything at a cost. I think that that's the next step, fighting the big businesses, to keep resources free to the public. Not shutting anyone down, everyone is welcome. Doesn't matter if you are filthy rich or just make enough to have a computer, the World Wide Web should be open to everyone. In the next ten years my health insurance card will contain a microchip that has my entire medical history and is updated during every medical intervention. This will substantially reduce the probability that I will be incapacitated due to an error in medication or treatment, because medical practitioners will have real-time access to all of my medical records.  What if we set up a GPS coordinate system on a football field?  -- Ojash Raval, Ames, Iowa
There are two developments I want from the field of technology. The first, and most important, is the integration of all my personal information (contacts, emails, Web sites I like to visit, anything and everything) into one portal for my private use, sharable as desired. The second desire is more pedestrian: I want a tool, something like a cell phone, that feeds the data to my wrap-around eyeglasses/earphones, and somehow takes input from my hands without confining me to a thumb-board. This tool will enable me to contact any person or website, or to watch/hear any entertainment. It will be my computer, and my portal, my interface to my virtual self. I see a totally wireless environment, including electricity. I see voice activated electronics 100 percent throughout the house and office. Total control over TV shows: when we watch and what we watch. All entertainment will be available on phones, computers or through home entertainment systems. The divergent world of handheld electronics needs to be unified. It's the first step towards the convergence, and a major relief to the pocket. Hopefully we work out how to get more from solar power and that kind of thing for the future so that we all don't have to depend on oil so much, now that would be great. ... A new kind of paint that you put on the car that converts the sunshine into energy to power the car. I would like to know if there will be any sort of teleportation devices. Where as, you might type in a destination, you step in a little portal and ZAP! You're there. I believe that the interface of computers will change drastically. I don't think that we will be typing away or staring at a 2-D monitor in the next 10 years. I believe that either we will start using a "direct connect" to the brain, scientists have started experimenting with this, or a holography interface in 3-D as a way to interface with the computer. 
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