IT and communications

Emerging technology Artificial brain Virtual Reality Research[67] diffusion Television Status Potentially marginalized technologies Potential applications

Neurological disease's treatments, artificial intelligenc Entertainment, education

Theory, experiments; limited Human decision, analysis, Artificial intelligence uses in specialized domains[68] Creating intelligent devices etc. [69] First commercial LTE networks deployed in Sweden December 2009; candidate systemsLTEbroadband advanced and IEEE 802.16m (Mobile WiMAX Release 2) in development Human translation of natural languages, in areas where Diffusion[71][72] misunderstanding is noncritical and language is formalized Biotic vision and perception, including humans Mechanical input devices

4G cellular communication

Pervasive computing

Machine translation

Easier and cheaper cross-cultur communication

Machine vision

Research, prototyping

Biometrics, controlling process (e.g., in driverless car,automate guided vehicle), detecting even (e.g., in visual surveillance), interaction (e.g., in humancomputer interaction), robot vis

Speech recognition Cybermethodology

Diffusion of primitive amplifications; working Machine augmented Libraries, schools, training, prototypes of more; theory, cognition, exocortices pocket calculators experiments on more substantial amplification

Mobile collaboration

Development, commercialization[73]

Semantic Web oranswer machine General-purpose

Theory, research Diffusion of non standardized

Extends the capabilities of vide conferencing for use on hand-h Traditional videomobile devices in real-time ove conferencing systems secure networks. For use in div industries such as manufacturin energy, healthcare.[74] Making the web machine-reada Search engines by annotating data on the web based on its meaning CPU for a few specialized Order of magnitude faster

Emerging technology

Status

Potentially marginalized technologies uses

Potential applications processing of parallelizablealgorithms

computing on graphics methods processing units Fourth-generation optical discs (3D optical data Research, prototyping[75] storage,Holographic data storage) Theory, experiments; some Optical computing components of integrated circuits have been developed[76]

All other mass Storing and archiving data storagemethods/devices, ma previously erased for economic gnetic tape data reasons storage, optical data storage Many electronics devices, integrated circuits Atomtronics, Electronic computing, optical computing, quantum clock Smaller, faster, lower power consuming computing

Quantum computing

Theory, experiments, [77] commercialization[78]

Much faster computing, for som kinds of problems, chemical modeling, new materials with programmed properties, theory of high-temperature superconductivityand superflui Secure communications

Quantum cryptography

Commercialization[79]

Radio-frequency identification

Diffusion of high cost[80][81] [82]

Barcode

Smartstores - RFID based self checkout (keeping track of all incoming and outgoing products), food packaging,smar shelves, smart carts. See: poten uses

Three-dimensional integrated circuit

Development, commercialization[83][84]

Conventional integrated circuit