Chapter Nine

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Chapter Nine

• Inventing the Future

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Who Knows???

• From Research to Reality 21st-Century
  Information Technology
• What do we know
• smaller
• faster
• cheaper

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Tomorrow Never Knows

• technology is hard to foresee
• the impact on society is even harder to predict

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Who would have guessed?

• Telephones
• wheels
• electricity
• kites
• ????
• Mouse
• internet watch

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Tomorrows Gadgets

• Hardware chip, wireless
• Software software applications
• Service serve a human need
• Way of Life market or need

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From Research to Reality 21st-Century
Information Technology

• Agents on the Network
• Transparent Technology
• Biological

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Tomorrows Hardware Trends

• Speed todays computers process millions of
  instructions per second (GIPS)
• Size fit in a card/under your skin
• Efficiency less energy

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Tomorrows Hardware Trends

• Capacity
• giga and terra instructions per sec
• Cost cheap

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Tomorrows Hardware Innovations

• New technological advancements have led to these
  hardware innovations
• Flat-panel displays
• wearable
• tactile

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Tomorrows Hardware Innovations

• biological
• wireless networks

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Tomorrows SoftwareEvolving Applications

• Visual programming environments
• mass Customizable applications
• portals
• Better user interfaces

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Tomorrows SoftwareEvolving Interfaces

• Speech and language
• Image three-dimensional interfaces
• include virtual reality

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Tomorrows SoftwareEvolving Interfaces

• Knowledge intelligent applications will make
  interfaces more friendly, forgiving, and useful

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Tomorrows ServiceAgents on the Network

• Intelligent agents are software programs
  designed to manage rather than be manipulated

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Tomorrows ServiceAgents on the Network

• An intelligent agent can
• Ask questions
• Respond to commands
• Pay attention to the users work patterns
• Serve as a guide and coach
• Take on the users goals
• Use reasoning to fabricate its own goals

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Tomorrows ServiceCyberspace Services

• On-demand automobiles
• Customized clothes
• Movies on demand
• smart health cards

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Tomorrows Way of LifeTransparent Technology

• Embedded intelligence built into many
  household appliances

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Tomorrows Way of LifeTransparent Technology

• Tabs like smart badges
• Pads like smart notebooks and books
• Boards like smart bulletin boards and
  blackboards

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The Day After Tomorrow Information Technology
Meets Biology

• In the future, biotechnology and microtechnology
  will become more intertwined with computer
  technology
• These possibilities have led to development in
• Microtechnology
• Nanotechnology
• Artificial Life

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Microtechnology

• Microtechnology is the development of microscopic
  machines on the scale of a millionth of a meter
• One of these machines has a motor that runs on
  static electricity

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Microtechnology

• microsensors, like a smart pill to transmit body
  temperature
• might be used to detect and destroy cancer cells

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Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology is the building of machines, atom
  by atom
• Nanomachines are only a few billionths of a
  meter in size

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Nanotechnology

• Nanomachines use the motion of a single atom as a
  switch
• Germ-sized robots might be built in the future

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Artificial Life

• Artificial life includes synthetic organisms that
  act like natural living systems
• software organisms that exist in computer memory

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Artificial Life

• Other experts build colonies of insect robots
  that communicate with each other and respond to
  changes in the environment