Technology improves our lives by enhancing health care with personalised tests to allowing the opportunity to tour your home before you purchase. What technologies will have a major impact on the future? This article focuses on 10 emerging trends with the potential to change our world.
The 3D printing technology was rumored to be the next big thing, but there are other less well-known innovations that are on this list, like clothing that shrink or grow with temperature and furniture that adapts to a person’s brain signals. It is also worth considering the potential of shape memory polymers, which can change from soft to hard depending on an event, such as changes in temperature, which is why they are useful in a variety of applications like healthcare (pills which only activate at a specific temperature) and fashion (clothes that tighten up or become loose when exposed to cold).
Another significant technology for the future is edge computing, which allows data processing closer than where it was generated (ultra-low latency) it also provides data sovereignty and enhanced security, and reduces costs of operating data centers. It is an essential technology that will enable the Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT), autonomous vehicles, vision-guided robots drones, AR/VR, and drones.
Space is a different area in which we are witnessing incredible progress in the area of reusable rockets, satellite technology to the prospect of astronauts on missions to Mars or other off-planet colonies. We are also working on technologies to combat climate change from drought-resistant crops to sensors for forest fires to carbon removal technology.