New and Emerging Technologies

New and Emerging Technologies

1. Bring Social Change - social media/apps/connectedness/tracking devices

   • Huge advancements in the health industry
     • Quick turnover of technology means that things quickly become obsolete, e.g. video tapes, dvd, etc. and the devices that play them
       • New technologies should make life in our society better, safer or easier
         • consumers demanding green/enviro friendly products
           • Changing nature of work - people will have jobs using technologies which are yet to be utilised in main stream society - making other skills redundant

2. technologies that have been recently developed or in the process of developed

   • With each new technological development consumers become more sophisticated and more demanding of new products.
     • New technoloiges change the ways things are traditionally done

3. Convergent technologies (more that one purpose in a device)

   • Nanotechnology (miniaturisation of devices)

4. Examples of Emerging Technologies - http://forumblog.org/2013/02/top-10-emerging-technologies-for-2013/

   • OnLine Electric Vehicles (OLEV)
     • 3-D printing and remote manufacturing
       • Self-healing materials
         • Energy-efficient water purification
           • Carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion and use
             • Enhanced nutrition to drive health at the molecular level
               • Enhanced nutrition to drive health at the molecular level
                 • Precise drug delivery through nanoscale engineering
                   • Organic electronics and photovoltaics