There were brain wave readers, cloud chambers, and location tracking.

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Jeff Hawkins, Numenta co-founder, and Michael Chui, a principal at the McKinsey Global Institute will discuss on Wednesday evening an alternative approach to big data, using brain-inspired machine learning technology and a cloud-based service called Grok that recognizes complex patterns from data streams and generates actionable predictions in real time.

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So, once you're done transferring inspiration from brain to slate you can grab it as a an image, and store it in the cloud for later.

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