10 Technologies for the Future
Technology can make our lives better from improving health care with personalised diagnostics to providing the opportunity to tour your home prior to purchasing. But what technologies will impact the future? This article looks at 10 emerging trends that have the potential to revolutionize our world.
3D printing may have been the technology that was widely anticipated to be the next big thing but this list includes some less-known developments – like clothing which shrink or expand according to temperature and furniture that adjust to an individual’s brain signals. It is also worth looking into the potential of shape memory polymers that can change from soft to hard depending on an event, such as the temperature changing and are therefore useful in a wide range of applications including healthcare (pills which only activate at a certain temperature) and fashion (clothes that tighten or become loose when exposed to cold).
Another crucial technology for the future is edge computing, which permits data processing closer to the place it was generated (ultra-low latency) it also provides data sovereignty and increased security, and reduces costs of operating data centers. Edge computing is a major element of the Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT), autonomous vehicles, robots that are guided by vision drones, AR/VR, and drones.
Space is a different area in which we are witnessing remarkable progress in the field of reusable rockets and satellite technology to the possibility of human-manned missions to Mars or other off-planet colonies. We are also working on developing technologies that will help us fight climate change from drought-resistant crops to sensors for forest fires, to carbon removal technology.