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The Future

The Future. What Technology Has in Store. Rolanda E. Stinson. Future Technology. “Nothing is wasted, and nothing goes wrong” – Steve Connor What Technology Has in Store News Article The use of solar power as source for heat and light Recycled water

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The Future

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  1. The Future What Technology Has in Store Rolanda E. Stinson

  2. Future Technology • “Nothing is wasted, and nothing goes wrong” – Steve Connor • What Technology Has in Store News Article • The use of solar power as source for heat and light • Recycled water • Using brain waves to customize your everyday life • Brain Waves Make Robot Move – Wired Article • 2005, Honda, “In a video demonstration in Tokyo, patterns of the changes in the brain taken by an MRI machine, like those used in hospitals, were relayed to a robotic hand.” • “…hoping to someday link a person's thoughts with machines in everyday life.”

  3. Areas of Future Technologies • Home • Reproduction • Transport • Internet • War

  4. Home • Solar powered windows and walls • Voice-activated appliances • Refrigerators that alert you when you’re low on food • Programmable flat panel TV’s that give you a greeting and weather update when powered up • “Granny-vision” – monitors elderly family members from up to 200 miles away • Robots that clean the house while you sleep

  5. Reproduction • Taking the uncertainty out of baby-making • “Test tube babies made men dispensable… women are not far behind” – Steve Connor • Artificial Wombs Article • 2003, H.C. Liu, a Director of Research at Cornell University headed up an experiment where “a mouse embryo grew almost to full term in one of Liu’s artificial wombs.” • Male pregnancy, from science fiction to scientific possibility • Involves transfer of embryo to male abdomen that has been primed by drugs to receive it • 2007, Mr. Lee, The First Male Pregnancy

  6. Transport • Age of fossil fuel quickly coming to an end • Electric cars and hybrids • Satellite navigation and radar will help cars drive themselves • Germany, the 2008 Opel Vectra from GM • The car that really drives itself • Less transportation as a result of more people working at home with tools such as the internet, email, video conferencing, home networks, Wi-Fi, and broadband

  7. Internet • Death of newspapers, television, and radio • News stories broken online and on blogs • Internet will become the center through which we get all of our visual and audio entertainment • Virtual classrooms and virtual offices • No one will ever have to leave their home • Virtual Office is What You Make It – Boston Globe

  8. War • Fighting battles using robots instead of soldiers • US sending robot troop to Iraq • 2005 • 2007 • Space the next battlefield??? • Bush administration creating NFIRE satellite to gather data but also with the capability to disable or destroy missiles from overhead – picture • Body armor with more protective capabilities

  9. Discussion • Is all of this practical? • Many of these have already come to pass, will people adopt these technologies as the new way of life? • Will future technologies make people lazier? • Will future technologies screw up the natural order of things?

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