Future Development in ICT

Future Development in ICT

1. Transport

   • Seeking alternative vehicle fueling: Electric vehicle, Hybrid vehicle, Fuel cell vehicle, Flywheel vehicle, Compressed air engine, Hydrogen vehicle.
   • Public transport: Online scheduling systems, One-ticket for everything, Convenient payment.
   • Road safety: Crash avoidance systems (Puts the brakes on and warns the driver when it detects a crash is going to happen), Pedestrian safety systems (Cars are designed with passive safety), Drowsiness and erratic driving systems (sensors in the car that detects you nodding off)
   • Air travel:Advanced air traffic control systems, Advanced body scanners in the airport, Bio-metric passports and databases

2. Medicine

   • Robots to carry out heart surgery
   • Cloning for human body parts.
   • Using Ipads to write the customers report.
   • Life support machines
   • Online medicine

3. Disabled

   • Bionic eye
   • Bus stop talks to the blind
   • Robots to help blind people.
   • Bionic body parts

4. Education

   • Virtual learning environments (VLEs)
   • School admin systems e.g. SIMS
   • Use of laptops, tablets, smart boards.

5. Entertainment

   • 3D TV, HD, Surround sound
   • Cinemas, booking online, getting tickets from ticket machines and not queus

6. Shopping

   • E-commerce
   • Online shopping
   • Shopping apps
   • Can't test the product out.

7. Communication

   • Skype
   • Webcams
   • Facebook messaging
   • telephones
   • Emails
   • Video conferrencing