The Future

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The Future

• What Technology Has in Store

Rolanda E. Stinson
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Future Technology

• Nothing is wasted, and nothing goes wrong
  Steve Connor
  
• What Technology Has in Store News Article
• The use of solar power as source for heat and
  light
  
• Recycled water
• Using brain waves to customize your everyday
  life
  
• Brain Waves Make Robot Move Wired Article
• 2005, Honda, In a video demonstration in Tokyo,
  patterns of the changes in the brain taken by an
  MRI machine, like those used in hospitals, were
  relayed to a robotic hand.
• hoping to someday link a person's thoughts with
  machines in everyday life.
  

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Areas of Future Technologies

• Home
• Reproduction
• Transport
• Internet
• War

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Home

• Solar powered windows and walls
• Voice-activated appliances
• Refrigerators that alert you when youre low on
  food
  
• Programmable flat panel TVs that give you a
  greeting and weather update when powered up
  
• Granny-vision monitors elderly family members
  from up to 200 miles away
  
• Robots that clean the house while you
• sleep

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Reproduction

• Taking the uncertainty out of baby-making
• Test tube babies made men dispensable women are
  not far behind Steve Connor
  
• Artificial Wombs Article
• 2003, H.C. Liu, a Director of Research at Cornell
  University headed up an experiment where a mouse
  embryo grew almost to full term in one of Lius
  artificial wombs.
• Male pregnancy, from science fiction to
  scientific possibility
  
• Involves transfer of embryo to male abdomen that
  has been primed by drugs to receive it
  
• 2007, Mr. Lee, The First Male Pregnancy

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Transport

• Age of fossil fuel quickly coming to an end
• Electric cars and hybrids
• Satellite navigation and radar
• will help cars drive themselves
• Germany, the 2008 Opel Vectra
• from GM
• The car that really drives itself
• Less transportation as a result of more people
  working at home with tools such as the internet,
  email, video conferencing, home networks, Wi-Fi,
  and broadband

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Internet

• Death of newspapers, television, and radio
• News stories broken online and on blogs
• Internet will become the center through which we
  get all of our visual and audio entertainment
  
• Virtual classrooms and virtual offices
• No one will ever have to leave their home
• Virtual Office is What You Make It Boston
  Globe
  

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War

• Fighting battles using robots instead of
  soldiers
  
• US sending robot troop to Iraq
• 2005
• 2007
• Space the next battlefield???
• Bush administration creating NFIRE satellite to
  gather data but also with the capability to
  disable or destroy missiles from overhead
  picture
• Body armor with more protective capabilities

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Discussion

• Is all of this practical?
• Many of these have already come to pass, will
  people adopt these technologies as the new way of
  life?
  
• Will future technologies make people lazier?
• Will future technologies screw up the natural
  order of things?