Five years ago IBM predicted that "our mobile phones will start to read our minds." Now Big Blue says that they do, sort of.

The brainiacs at IBM made some pretty far out predictions this week: In five years, they say, you won’t need passwords, there will be no more digital divide, and mind reading will no longer be science fiction.

Forgive us if we take issue with the last one. Five years ago, in a similar list of predictions, IBM said that by the dawn of 2012, “mobile phones will start to read our minds.”

IBM has been doing these predictions for decades. Back in the 80s, they looked ten years...