Technology improves our lives, from improving health care by providing personalised diagnostics, to providing the opportunity to tour your home prior to purchasing. What technologies are likely to have a significant impact on the future? This article focuses on 10 emerging trends with the potential to revolutionize our world.
3D printing could have been the technology that everyone anticipated would be a success but this list includes a few less well-known innovations, like clothes that expand or shrink with temperature and furniture that adjust to the individual’s brain signals. Shape memory polymers are also worth looking into. They can change from soft to rigid with the trigger of the shift in temperature. This makes them useful in a variety of ways such as healthcare (pills that only http://technologyactive.com/the-impact-of-new-technology-on-the-environment/ work at certain temperatures) and fashion.
Edge computing is a different technology that is expected to emerge in the near future. It allows data processing to be closer to the place they were created (ultra low latency), achieves enhanced security and data sovereignty, and reduces the operating cost of data centres. Edge computing is a key driver of the Industrial Internet-of-Things, autonomous vehicles and drones that are vision-guided and AR/VR.
Space is a different area in which we are witnessing remarkable progress in the area of reusable rockets, satellite technology to the possibility of astronauts flying missions to Mars or other off-planet colonies. We are also developing technology to help us combat climate change from drought-resistant crops to forest fire sensors to carbon removal technology.