Gazing inside Howard Stringer’s crystal ball

With signs of a recovery in the consumer electronics market, Sony has recently placed bets on a couple of technologies that it thinks will be big in 2010: 3D television and Internet delivery of content to its TV sets and other devices. But they aren't the only technologies interesting CEO Howard Stringer right now. On Thursday he sat down with a small group of reporters at Sony's Tokyo headquarters and talked about the technology he expects will drive growth at Sony in the coming years.