Scientific and technological advances

Scientific and technological advances

1. Transport

   • Major improvements
     • Urban transports
       • Cars
       • High-speed trains
       • Metro
   • Most amazing advance
     • The installation and maintenance of the international space station

2. Medicine

   • Advances in medicine have saved countless lives
     • Vaccinations and antibiotics
       • Have improved health and extended life expectancy
     • Transplants
       • Are helping the sick and disabled become mobile
     • Diagnoses
     • Genetic testing
       • Are helping to combat serious illnesses
     • Early intervention

3. Communication

   • Have a long way since the invention of the telephone
     • Today smartphones connect us to the internet using.....
       • WI-FI
     • We are more likely to communicate
       • Using free messenger services
       • Than by talking on the phone
   • Mobible phones and this technology was fiction 20 years ago
     • Today everybody have a mobile phone

4. Construction

   • There have been some huge building projects over the past 100 years
     • Channel Tunnel
     • Palm jumeirah
     • The world´s largest man-made island
     • Burj Khalifa
     • The world´s tallest building
   • The use of....
     • Computers in architecture have allowed engineers
       • to complete huge megaprojects
         • Wich have transformed:
           • Cities
           • In some cases
             • Whole countries

5. 3D printer

   • Is a type of industrial robot
     • Uses
       • Computer software and imaging techniques
         • To reproduce 3D objects
   • Advantage
     • Relatively small
     • Cheap to use
     • Accurately reproduce almost any object
   • One of the most exciting uses
     • Is the ability to reproduce artificial limbs
       • This would be especially beneficial....
         • In countries with limited access to medical services

6. Wearable technology

   • Are becoming part of what we wear every day
     • Smartwatches
       • Are similar to small smartphones with can run a variety of apps
     • Smart glasses
       • Let us view a digital display on the inside of the lens,and can connect with other gadgets wirelessly
     • Smarth clothing
       • Reacts to the human body
         • In sports training
           • It can be used to measure the wearer´s hearth rate
           • Brithing rate
           • Or for cooling and warming the body in response environmental conditions

7. Flexible phones

   • Electronic paper is one of the prototype materials in screen technology
     • It means that screens for tablet computers or phones of the future...
       • Could be printed on a flexible material and then folded up
         • The material
           • Is very durable
             • So phones could survive being dropped or even washed.

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