25 Things You Need to Know About the Future
Explaining the challenges and technologies that will shape the next few decades.
Part IV: Computing and Inorganic Life
Part IV of 25 Things You Need to Know About the Future turns our attention to the digital age and beyond. Topics covered therefore include cloud computing, artificial intelligence and robots. We may still be scanning the heavens for other intelligent life out in space. However, within the next few decades we are far more likely to encounter new intelligent, digital species entirely of our own making . . .
Chapter 16: Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is where software applications, processing power, data or artificial intelligence are accessed over the Internet. In time this will become inevitable to reduce costs, to be green, and to enable computing innovations. The supplier websites, services and online references used in compiling this chapter included:
Chapter 17: Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligences (AIs) will fairly soon be taking our spoken commands, anticipating our information requirements, translating languages, recognizing and tracking people and things, diagnosing medical conditions, performing surgery, reprogramming defects in our DNA, and driving all forms of transport. The online references used in compiling this chapter comprised:
Chapter 18: Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) overlays digital data on a real-time view of the world in order to integrate our experience of reality and cyberspace. The supplier websites and online references used in compiling this chapter comprised:
Chapter 19: Quantum Computing
Quantum computing stores and processes information using the quantum-mechanical states of sub-atomic particles. The supplier websites and online references used in compiling this chapter comprised:
Chapter 20: Robots
Given the advancements in computing and related technologies that are starting to accrue, it would be staggering if there were not tens or hundreds of millions of robots in the world in a few decades time. The online references used in compiling this chapter comprised:
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