10 TECHNOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE THAT WILL BE REVOLUTIONARY - ARTE - 2024

The technology of the future is born from the brightest minds that, day and night, work on revolutionary projects aimed at making human life more comfortable. And it is that knowing which are the sectors that can have the most influence in the future, especially if you are an entrepreneur, is key to not being left behind.

Each and every large company, regardless of the purpose for which they are dedicated, is investing in the technologies of the future.

We do not know if all these great technologies are going to be really transcendent. However, there are some that will undoubtedly impact human life with great force and that promise to have even more prominence in the future.

The technological trends that are evolving the world

Artificial intelligence

This technology began to develop more than 70 years ago and is based on the creation of robotic systems that can make decisions in a similar way to how humans do.

The first scientists who wanted to make the technology that many science fiction novels talked about a reality were dedicated to studying the workings of the human brain. The objective of this was to have the necessary knowledge to create computers that work in a similar way to the neural networks of the brain.

More than 7 decades later, computers still do not fully copy the functions of the human brain, but enough progress has been made that large companies delegate functions to machines.

Many of the richest companies in the world are spending millions developing artificial intelligence and owning smaller companies specializing in artificial intelligence.

Google began hiring artificial intelligence specialists to develop its own algorithms, making progress before any other major company. This has allowed Google to be at the forefront of advances related to this technology.

The purchase of DeepMind Technologies in 2014 for 500 million dollars has been the most relevant purchase that Google has made. The DeepMind project is truly ambitious, and coupled with Google's resources, it promises to shake the world in no time.

For its part, Microsoft bought Switfkey for 250 million, which makes them boast the best mobile keyboard that has been created to date. This purchase was heavily criticized as it was considered a huge investment for a simple keyboard. What many ignore is that in order to be able to predict the words that people want to write, this company deeply studied people's writing habits and mixed them with artificial intelligence.

On the other hand, Apple bought Turi for 200 million dollars, a company dedicated to improving learning with the use of artificial intelligence. She also bought Emotient, which is responsible for a technology that hospmatizes the recognition of people's emotions.

Apple's most recent purchase was Perceptio in 2015, another company that is dedicated to studying humans to create machines that give the best responses to their attitudes. Apple is doing its best to conquer the market with products that can adapt to and understand their owners.

Virtual reality

This technology may have been on the market for many years. Many companies (such as those related to mental health) have the tools and knowledge to assemble virtual reality equipment, but they have taken a long time looking for a way to lower costs and expand their usefulness.

Initially, it was difficult to imagine that a virtual reality device had a function other than entertainment. To date, virtual reality has gone beyond the development of entertainment devices:

• It can improve the relationships of people who are spatially separated.
• It can be useful for shopping, giving customers a deeper view of the item they want to purchase.
• It can be used to overcome phobias and other anxiety disorders.

Facebook has been ahead of other competitors in this sector by investing in the purchase of Oculus a few years ago, which allowed it to develop the Rift virtual reality device.

Rift hit the market at the beginning of 2016 and its biggest competition will be the PlayStation VR, which SONY will launch later this year.

Oculus has a wide advantage in having allied Facebook with Microsoft and Samsung, so that its device can be used on the platforms of these brands.

Blockchain

Blockchain technology or chain of blocks allows what is being known as the "internet of money" and is behind one of the topics that has been most talked about in 2018; cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin.

However, Bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency that exists today; There are already more than 1000 cryptocurrencies in which it can be a good time to invest.

The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions, but virtually everything of value.

The information contained in a blockchain exists as a shared database, and continually reconciled. The blockchain database is not stored in a single location, which means that the records it keeps are truly public and easily verifiable.

Nanotechnology

This technology includes the creation and manipulation of materials that measure between 1 and 100 nanometers. That is, materials that are close to the size of molecules, impossible to see through the human eye.

With this technology it is desired to reach the tiniest spaces that human beings cannot reach with the rest of the technologies. Today, billions of dollars have been invested in nanotechnology research. The objective is to use it to produce energy, to create materials, in the development of weapons and, especially, in medicine.

The countries that have invested more in the development, research and study (it is one of the most difficult engineering to study) of this technology are: the United States, Japan and some countries of the European Union.

Among all the countries that have invested to take advantage of this technology, almost 10 billion dollars have been spent. But, what is even more incredible: this amount is almost doubled by the more than 2000 companies that want to have the best of this technology.

It is a matter of time before nanorobots begin to be used to treat diseases that until now are incurable.

Biotechnology

Biotechnology is often used to combat diseases, reduce the footprint that humans leave on the environment, improve food production and to take advantage of non-polluting energy. Currently, there are more than 250 drugs that have been developed thanks to the use of biotechnology.

The most valuable company creating products using biotechnology is Gilead Sciences and it is valued at more than $ 150 billion. His greatest success has undoubtedly been the creation of the drug to combat hepatitis C.

Also prominent in biotechnology are companies such as Amgen (AMGN), whose main product is the anti-inflammatory Embrel, and CELG, which has grown a lot thanks to its drug for colon ulcers.

Robotics

This is a branch of engineering that mixes mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computational engineering. The objective of this technology is to create automated machines that work under the control of human beings, in order to carry out activities similar to human beings or to carry out activities that a human being cannot.

Robotics is constantly growing and is used both in military areas and to carry out household chores, manufacturing operations and some simple activities that can be carried out in an automated way without the need to reason.

The most valuable robotics company is Irobot, which is valued at more than $ 500 million. They are the creators of the Roomba and a wide variety of military technology.

Not far from the importance of this company, is the Google robot assembler, which is valued at a price similar to that of Irobot.

This assembler has reached that value thanks to the purchase of other smaller robotics companies such as Boston Dynamics and Sschaft, which is currently working on improving a car so that it does not need a driver.

Many other companies are working to develop robotic improvements, but these two are the ones with the budget for the most ambitious projects.

Synthetic biology

Synthetic biology combines several disciplines: genetics, molecular biology, molecular engineering, and biophysics. Its objective is to create artificial organisms that can do useful activities for humans.

Perhaps the best known company focused on this technology is Intrexon, although there are also Gevo, Amyris or Bioamber.

It is estimated that between 2014 and 2020, almost $ 40 trillion will have been invested in research and development of synthetic biology products, and that this technology will be established in the market by 2020.

Sensors

Sensors have made human life easier year after year. The function of these devices is to detect changes in physical or chemical quantities. These magnitudes can be: light intensity, temperature, distance, acceleration, pressure, torsional force, humidity, movement, PH, etc.

The sensors have made humanity stop wasting time monitoring activities and simply start to be aware of the signals that these devices emit. They are used in medicine, in the different fields of engineering, for surveillance, security of people and to improve health.

Currently many companies are working to bring the most functional sensors possible to the market. Infrared sensors that allow non-invasive medical procedures, sensors that turn automobiles and industrial machines into truly reliable devices.

Drones

Drones are remotely piloted unmanned aircraft. These devices are usually equipped with a camera and are used as entertainment, to make reports, as a surveillance tool, to investigate areas where humans would be at great risk and to transport military missiles of the different armed forces.

There are many brands that develop devices in different models and sizes. Since 2010, the French company Parrot monopolized the sale of drones thanks to its ARdrone model. But, at the beginning of 2016, the Chinese company DJI displaced Parrot to the second place of sale of these devices.

Since the launch of the Phantom 3 quadcopter device, DJI has increased its value by 500%, reaching a value of 10 billion dollars. The two companies are currently working to launch the best drone in 2017. Parrot wants to regain its place in the market and DJI to keep it.

Technologies that looked distant in books and movies 10 or 20 years ago are now a fact. In addition, the companies that use and produce them compete to outperform their competition and bring the best possible products to market. The present looks promising, what does the future hold?

Quantum computing

Quantum computing computes using mechanical quantum phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement. Quantum computers are different from transistor-based binary digital electronic computers.

While common digital computing requires data to be encoded in binary digits (bits), each of which is always in one of two defined states (0 or 1), quantum computing uses quantum bits, which can be in superpositions Of states.

Quantum computing uses qubits represented by atoms to encode and process data in multiple states to solve a problem, whereas "classical" computers do so through binary bits represented by ones and zeros.

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