Technology has made our lives easier and better, from improving health care by providing personalised diagnostics to providing an online tour of your home before you purchase. But what technologies will impact the future? This article looks at 10 emerging trends that have the potential to transform our world.
The 3D printing technology was thought to be the next big thing, but there’s other less well-known innovations that are on this list, such as clothes that shrink or expand with temperature, and furniture that can be adapted to a person’s brain signals. Shape memory polymers are also worth a look. They can go from soft to hard with an event such as a temperature shift. This makes them useful for a wide range of applications that include healthcare (pills which only activate at certain temperatures) and fashion.
Another significant technology for the future is edge computing, which allows data processing closer than where it was created (ultra-low latency) it also provides data sovereignty and enhanced security, while reducing the cost of operating data centres. Edge computing is a major factor in the Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT), autonomous vehicles, vision-guided robots, drones and AR/VR.
Space is a third area where we are seeing extraordinary progress, from reusable rockets and satellite technology to the prospect of human-manned missions to Mars or other off-planet colonies. We are also working on developing technologies to help fight climate change, from drought-resistant crops to sensors for forest fires to carbon removal technology.
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