With the development of technology, we begin to notice how the world around us responds and begins to change along with this development. While many of the technologies on this list are starting to see adoption, some are still in their infancy. We are on the cusp of a new technological era in human history, and although we are still a long way from the future depicted in science fiction films, many of the technologies on this list are even more futuristic than we could ever imagine.
We are on the verge of new scientific discoveries that will change the lives of many
transparent tree
It is quite possible that similar materials will be used in the construction of houses of the future.
Thanks to special chemical treatment of ordinary balsa wood and its subsequent coating with epoxy resin, scientists have created a clean, biodegradable material that is 4-6 times stronger than analogues without chemical treatment.
It is even believed that this material could one day be used as a renewable source for the production of solar panel cells, since the transparent material only partially blocks light, allowing about 85-90 percent of the volume to pass through.
Modern information and communication systems
Modern information and communication systems include:
- wired and wireless communications;
- satellites, data transmission devices;
- antennas;
- security cameras.
This list is far from complete. Thanks to the existence of information systems management centers, today it has become possible to quickly resolve problems that arise while using automated communication tools.
Satellite communications equipment, which is equipped with new car models, is actively used as modern information and communication systems. They are capable of transmitting in the form of video and audio signals about possible natural disasters and other natural disasters.
Hyperloop
This is what the Hyperloop passenger cabin might look like.
I think many of our readers have watched the animated series “Futurama” and remember the special pipes through which the townspeople move. Well, the company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) is working on a similar idea that it wants to bring to life. The Hyperloop concept was first proposed in 2013 by Elon Musk. It is a system of transport between cities in closed vacuum tubes. Passengers, while in special capsules, will be able to travel from one city to another at a speed of about 1,300 kilometers per hour. Faster than the speed of sound, it should be noted.
Digital screens and various promotional offers promise to make super-fast travel not only enjoyable but also entertaining. HTT says the Hyperloop system will be much more efficient and cost-effective than any other transit system currently in use. The technologies are currently undergoing first tests. But Hyperloop’s potential was noticed even in Russia.
Vertical farms
It really is a very clean and economical solution for producing fresh produce.
With some projections predicting that by 2050, more than 80 percent of the world's population will live inside urban centers, food production will be a major challenge for many countries. Vertical (tower) farms are already finding solutions for many island regions.
The use of a vertical cultivation scheme for food crops can very effectively solve the problem of free space, which is especially important when you consider that the cost of land is becoming more expensive every year everywhere. In addition, the design features of such farms make it possible to use water much more economically. Gravity does its job, and in one watering you can cover the entire farm area, saving both water and energy.
Chemical technology of modern energy materials
The key direction in the activities of entire areas of modern science is the search and creation of safe, highly efficient and economical sources for generating energy. Energy resources such as oil or coal, which have been widely used in recent decades, have a negative impact on the environment not only during their use, but also during extraction. The use of these energy resources, taking into account the costs of their extraction, is not very effective.
Energy is closely related to the chemical technology industry, which makes it possible to search for new materials and develop means and methods for obtaining energy from these materials.
Chemical technology of materials in modern energy makes it possible to more effectively manage and innovate nuclear chemical processes and create advanced technologies for the primary and secondary processing of natural raw materials. In addition, the use of this technology allows for more efficient processing of nuclear fuel and waste that arises as a result of the operation of nuclear power.
3D printing
It will not be long before people themselves will be able to create their own houses, bicycles and even cars.
Even though this technology has been with us for several years, 3D printing continues to find new applications. As technology becomes cheaper and more accessible to the masses, 3D printing devices are slowly becoming an integral part of modern society. Medicine, space, design, transport sectors - everyone, one way or another, is beginning to use this technology more often and receive significant benefits from it.
Whether it is the bioprinting of products for medical purposes or the printing of materials and various mechanical parts used, for example, in engines or in new space developments, 3D printing is the future.
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Why man?
Only now have technologies begun to mature enough to take on the task of increasing the efficiency not of conventional machines, but of humans. According to the UN, over the past five years the human potential index has increased by an average of 0.6% per year, and this is very little. Suddenly it became obvious that with such population growth and levels of education and medicine, it was almost impossible to maintain GDP growth, even if there was good growth in technology and sufficient capital in the market.
In addition, questions have accumulated related to how people will live: they concern not only medicine and education, but also ecology, food production for an increasing population, space exploration for the future needs of humanity, protection of privacy, data and any significant social changes .
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People are afraid of violation of freedoms, manipulation and lack of demand due to the fact that technology will displace people, as well as the deliberate restriction of access to benefits. But real innovation allows you to go beyond the bounds of narrow reality, although in this process there are mistakes and difficulties. How does this happen?
Smart glass
Technologies like this are truly enticing.
Durable, flexible, smart... glass? Yes, we, perhaps without noticing it ourselves, are entering the “era of glass.” With the ability to become transparent and opaque, remain durable and unbreakable, and even behave like a touchpad, a new type of glass could transform our homes and workplaces beyond recognition.
The walls in such houses, if desired, can act like windows, controlling the amount of ultraviolet radiation and heat transmitted and making our homes and transport much more energy efficient. Just imagine that every surface of your home will be able to transform from a wall to a window, and from a window to a TV screen, simply by moving your hand.
Modern trends in the use, implementation and development of science and technology
In the modern world, leading roles in the formation of a new technological structure are given to thermonuclear energy, genetic engineering, photonics, as well as nanotechnology and robotics. Already today, flexible automation of the production of goods is taking place, and the process of improving information networks and transport systems continues.
Clean energy and renewable energy sources are becoming increasingly popular. Technologies are being developed and used to reduce the energy intensity, as well as the material intensity of the production of goods and to create a new type of structural materials, with the properties initially inherent in them.
Holograms
Who knows what else people will be able to create using this technology.
House design. Video games. Space exploration. Construction of new worlds. And all this in three-dimensional space. This is exactly the future that holographic technologies promise us. Capable of complementing our physical world with a digital one, this technology has enormous potential in almost every field known to us.
Drawing in the air, walking on the surface of Mars, looking into the mouth of a volcano and the center of the Earth - holograms can send us to places where even magic, let alone science, is not capable. The possibilities will be almost limitless and directly depend only on our imagination.
Future technology development
8. Bionic lens for superhuman vision
A Canadian doctor is going to conduct clinical tests of “bionic lenses” that improve 100% vision by 3 times
with an 8-minute painless operation.
The new lens will be available by 2021, enhancing the natural lens of the eye. During the operation, a syringe inserts a lens containing saline into the eye, and after 10 seconds, the folded lens straightens and is positioned over the natural lens, completely correcting vision.
9. Spray clothing
Spanish designer Manel Torres invented the world's first spray-on clothing. You can apply the spray to any part of the body, then remove it, rinse it off and wear it again
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The spray is made from special fibers mixed with polymers that give the fabric elasticity and durability. This technology will allow designers to create unique items of clothing with original designs.
10. Portraits obtained from DNA
Student Heather Duy-Hagborg creates 3D portraits from DNA found on cigarette butts and chewing gum.
on the street.
She enters the DNA sequences into a computer program that creates the appearance of a person from the sample. This process typically produces a 25-year-old version of the person. The model is then 3D printed with life-size portraits.
11. Shopping in virtual reality
One such store has opened at a train station in South Korea, where you can place an order by photographing a barcode
, and your purchases will be delivered to your home.
Homeplus chain of stores
installed six screen doors with life-size images of shelves containing items you would buy in a supermarket. Under each item there is a barcode that can be scanned and sent using the app.
Home robots and drones
Much smarter and more convenient machines will soon appear on the market.
With the active development of robotics, we are increasingly seeing the emergence of more end-user-friendly home robots. The current boom in commercial drones is just the beginning.
Whether it is something like Honda's ASIMO robot, designed to help and communicate with people, or whether we are talking about machines that will replace people in some work positions (for example, waiters, receptionists), one thing is clear: the development of robotics will not will stop. Relatively soon, in addition to televisions, computers, washing machines and microwaves, a small army of robot assistants will become an integral part of almost every home on the planet.
Augmentation of people
Maybe we'll be able to "hear" colors or "feel" electric fields, or even download new information into our brains, like in the movie "The Matrix."
Bionics is changing the face of humanity. Literally. The more we become dependent on machines, the faster we approach a time when our capabilities will be orders of magnitude higher and broader than those we possess today.
Whether it's implanting video cameras in our eyes, improving our ability to jump higher or run faster, or even controlling electronic devices with our minds, the line between machine and human is slowly but surely becoming increasingly blurred. Thanks to our new abilities, we will most likely even be able to feel and experience something completely unfamiliar to us before.
Workplaces
The Internet and technology in general provide more equal opportunity than anything that has come before in business and education. You can be unclaimed in your own village and work with leading companies all over the world, you can have significant physical limitations and still engage in entrepreneurship and raise investments for your cool idea of a guitar for the disabled, you can earn a lot of money while still in school, creating popular content on TikTok or on YouTube, and you can learn almost anything for free.
There are many more opportunities. People want to learn and adapt to the new reality. During the first months of the pandemic, the EdTech industry exploded in a way that no one expected back in 2019: the number of users of the online learning platform Udemy grew by 425%, Coursera by 520%. Each technology means new industries (in space alone, dozens of new industries and directions await us) and applications (just worth the potential of artificial intelligence, which already has dozens of applications).
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Technology is already providing us with jobs and opportunities for intellectual development. The number of information workers, that is, everyone who earns money through mental activity, is growing rapidly in the world and a year ago reached a billion people, while in 2012 there were four times fewer of them, and this is thanks to automation, robotization and the introduction of artificial intelligence.
True artificial intelligence
Scientists hope to one day be able to share this world with emotionally mature and intelligent machines.
For a long time, the media has been promising us a future in which we will be able to communicate with cybernetic partners capable of understanding our commands and requests, emotions and even humor. However, in today's world this dream still remains a dream.
Yet that could all change relatively soon, as engineers work hard to create software that will truly be able to understand human emotions and expressions. Thanks to advanced advances in facial recognition technology, some existing AI programs are already able to understand when you are angry or sad, and some are even able to describe the events they “see”.
These are all the first steps towards creating robots that will be endowed with the ability to recognize and describe the world around them, and then share their experiences with us. .
Nanotechnology
One day, humanity will be able to look back on a time without nanomachines as if it were the Stone Age, but for now we can only guess and anticipate what this technology will allow us to achieve.
From purifying water from pollutants to creating biodegradable plastic (and nanomats and nanobolts, where would we be without them) - nanotechnology promises us a world for the next century that we could not even imagine before.
Measuring only a few nanometers in size, incredibly tiny machines will soon be able to study human DNA and allow us to fundamentally change the behavior of various materials, allowing them to be incredibly strong or brittle, depending on our goals and purposes.
These machines will be so tiny that the power to operate will come from the simple rhythm of your heart or the chemical energy contained in our cells. With the help of nanotechnology, we will be able to conduct complete observation and development of drugs for diseases such as Alzheimer's disease or cancer, create more efficient energy carriers, materials with amazing properties, practically eternal or destroyed only under the influence of certain light waves.
Technologies for the production of new equipment
The production technology of new equipment begins with the development and development of the first prototype, with its subsequent testing and verification of quality, functionality and calculation of all material costs associated with its production. After successful development of the first prototype of the new technology, it is put into mass production.
The process of mastering the production of a new technology can be carried out at an existing or, in some cases, at a new enterprise (if the capacity of the existing enterprise is not enough for the effective production of new equipment).
