Technology makes our lives better by enhancing health care with personalised diagnostics to providing the opportunity to tour your home prior to purchasing. What technologies are likely to make a huge impact on the future? This article focuses on 10 emerging trends with the potential to revolutionize our world.
The 3D printing technology was thought to be the next big technology, but there are several less mainstream technologies on this list – like clothes that shrink or grow with temperature and furniture that adapts to brain signals. Shape memory polymers are also worth a look. They can transform from soft to stiff with an event such as changing temperature. This makes them suitable for a range of uses that include healthcare (pills which only activate at certain temperatures) and fashion.
Another key technology that is expected to emerge in the near future is edge computing, which allows data processing closer than where it originated (ultra-low latency) and provides data sovereignty and enhanced security, and reduces costs of running data centres. It is a key technology that will enable the Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT), autonomous vehicles, robots that are guided by vision drones, AR/VR, and drones.
Space is another area where we are making huge progress. From reused rockets to satellite technology, to the possibility of crewed missions on Mars or other planets’ colonies. And naturally we continue to develop new technologies that help us to combat climate change – from drought-resistant crops to sensors for forest fires and carbon removal technology.