Here is Honda's hydrogen car website. Chevrolet has a prototype called the Equinox. And here is an article written in 2003 by futurist Peter Schwartz and his GBN colleague Doug Randall.
Images from Honda website.
In mid-Dec last year I was invited to talk by Eamon Kelly and Andrew Blau of GBN which is part of Monitor. GBN works on futures and in addition to the usual ecology / climate change / renewable energy they mentioned ubiquitous technology and connectivity. Later during discussions around the table the regional head of an agri-business company said he figures information has no value. Hmm ... maybe ... but consolidating scattered little bits of information has huge value.
ChoicePoint was bought out by LexisNexis (Reed Elsevier) in 2008 for US$3.5 billion ... these folks use supercomputers to gather, analyze and consolidate information. Another big player is Acxiom. These companies provide important services but are also controversial ... particularly from a privacy perspective. Here is a news report by the (late) Peter Jennings on what's being collected about you (in the U.S. anyways). Former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said: "Privacy is dead - get over it!"