What is the future of technology?
No one can precisely predict the future of technology because no one can see the future. However, there are adequate arguments that can be made in the past on the basis of progress and trends of technology. For example, it is reasonable to predict that computers will continue to be stronger, numerous and cheaper. The areas with the huge potential that are being used today, such as biotechnology, nanotechnology and other developing technologies, will continue to carry fruit.
technology in general is likely to continue to improve, as well as for millennia, and create promises and risks. Some futurists have even argued that the degree of technological progress is accelerating and quoting the argument that better tools help us create ever better tools and today there are more qualified scientists and engineers than ever.
In the area of computers we already see growing miniaturization and functionality. Today someone could communicate with the Dozen or Hundreds of built -in microchips all over the house and office, there will be many thousands in the future. Increasing the bandwidth and decreasing costs will lead to what some have called "ubiquitous computer techniques" - computers help us with everything everywhere. This is a computing technology to the next step.
Some commentators, especially Bill Gates, believe that the next few decades will be emphasized by the long -awaited revolutions in robotic technology, with robots entering the house and workplace wide. Robots are already used to clean pools, carpets and perform basic safety functions. In Japan and elsewhere, research is intensive for the development of robots who can take care of the elderly and help automate more manual work. This increasing process of automation creates wealth and allows further investment in automation until most of the physical laboratory will be optional.
Other futurists see trends in automation technolOgii leading to table factories that decentralize production and allow users to quickly produce objects such as dishes and mobile phones from simple precursor parts such as circuits and plastic powder boards. "3D printers" could revolutionize product distribution in the same way as the P2P networks today revolutionized the distribution of music and videos. Users could share product designs on an open source code website and make them available to everyone in the world with the necessary tabletime.
In addition to these two areas, there are dozens, not hundreds of domains that will continue to proceed technologically: new materials, nanotechnology, medicines, gene therapy and stem cells, renewable energy, display and interface technology, artificial intelligence and more. One thing is for sure: the future will have better technology than the past. But will we give it to better use? Just the time of effort will say that.