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(CNN) -- I know where to find the future. It will show up, I predict, on Tuesday at London's Westminster Central Hall. Don't blink. It will arrive in the shape of Le Web, Europe's illustrious two-day Internet conference which, this year, is focusing on next-generation digital products that are "faster than realtime."
Faster than realtime?
"It's when the server brings you a beer before you ask for it because she already knows what you drink!"
That's at least what "faster than realtime" means to Robert Scoble, Silicon Valley's most ubiquitous observer of the digital future who, inevitably enough, will be speaking at Le Web.
In Scoble's future, the computer "server" and the "server" in the bar will be indistinguishable. And they will both know what you want to drink before you know it yourself.
Highlight enabled Le Meur to literally know the future before it happened because, he says, it is measuring our location all of the time. "I opened the door before he was there because I knew he was coming," Le Meur told me excitedly about a recent meeting that he had in the real world with Scoble.
Paul Davison, the CEO of Highlight who will be speaking at Le Web, agrees with Le Meur about how "faster than realtime" is revolutionizing not only the internet but the very nature of life itself in the digital 21st century. "We're entering a very special time in history, where smartphones and mobile sensors will allow us to see things that we've never been able to see before," Davison told me. "It's really exciting."
But it's not just social apps like Hightlight that are enabling the web to predict the future. As Le Meur explained to me, medical lifestyle and fitness apps like Withings and Runkeeper enable him to predict his weight in advance because they are able over time -- through the massive amounts of personal data that they collect from his body -- to map out patterns which his brain doesn't have the processing power to grasp.


Summary:
At an upcoming 2-day conference called Le Web, the theme will be future technology and the possibilities for our near (or far) future. One highlight is a technology that could make it possible for people to know our thoughts, and what we want. They call it to be "faster than realtime". This could be used in many ways; depending on who gets a hand on the technology. The unveiling group at the conference say that it could be potentially used for alot of good, such as medical diagnosis and prevention. But others fear it could be the creation of our downfall.


So what do you guys think?
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if you read my mind alot of hate would release into the world
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That would be crazy and scary great topic +rep.
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I really wouldnt want anyone to read my mind
but anyways good topic
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There's alot of stuff in my mind, I wouldn't want to share with the world.

I'll be like Fry...
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Now, you can't read my mind!
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