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New and Emerging Technologies
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11-12 Design & Technology Mind Map on New and Emerging Technologies, created by Kerry Wallace on 06/11/2014.
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New and Emerging Technologies
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
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
Convergent technologies (more that one purpose in a device)
Nanotechnology (miniaturisation of devices)
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
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