Top CEOs Describe Future Technologies

Too much wine with dinner? In the future, your car might not start if you’re drunk _ and it might automatically call a cab, notify your spouse and even reschedule business appointments early the next morning. That sobering vision of things to come could also include the ability to read important e-mails and other vital messages on television, wireless telephone or computers at work and at home.

"The solutions just open up wide," says Borland Software’s chief executive, Dale Fuller, who foresees the drunk-dealing automobile.

To Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, technology in the future promises better tools for sorting and managing important information _ from e-mails, instant messages, blogs and Web sites _ that will help computer users discard their digital junk.

Ballmer and other executives, all part of the Washington-based Business Software Alliance, met with congressional leaders and members of President Bush’s Cabinet to lobby over Internet security, foreign trade and protections against software piracy.

By TED BRIDIS
The Associated Press

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