Business Technology Management
The technology we utilize improves our lives, from personalized diagnostics in health care to virtual tours of homes before you buy. What technologies will shape the future? This article explores 10 emerging trends that have the potential to change the way we live.
The 3D printing technology was expected to be the next big trend, but there are also some less-popular innovations that are on this list, such as clothes that shrink or expand with temperature, and furniture that adapts to the brain’s signals. Shape memory polymers are also worth taking into consideration. They can go from being soft to rigid upon an event such as changing temperature. This makes them suitable for a wide range of applications such as healthcare (pills which only activate at certain temperatures) and fashion.
Another crucial technology for the future is edge computing, which permits data processing closer to where it was created (ultra-low latency) It also ensures data sovereignty and increased security, and reduces costs of operating data centers. Edge computing is a major enabler of the Industrial Internet-of-Things, autonomous vehicles as well as vision-guided robotics, drones, and AR/VR.
Space is a different area in which we are seeing extraordinary progress in the field of reusable rockets and satellite technology to the prospect of manned missions to Mars or other off-planet colonies. We are also developing technology to help fight climate change from drought-resistant crops to sensors for forest fires to carbon removal technology.
