It’s the future.
The modern world is so dynamic that every day brings new scientific discoveries and new technologies that could radically change a person’s life. Many of them are not fiction, but have been used successfully in the workplace and at home. Some of them will be discussed in our review.
1. Chemical processing of wood
Chemical processing of such material, as wood, in the last few decades has progressed. Today, treated with special oils and resins, the material increases its strength in a 4-6 times relative to untreated wood. The safety coefficient is so high that today many scientists and engineers think about the possibility of using this wood instead of plastic.
2. Hyperloop
Transport development in the XXI century has become one of the most pressing issues. A few years ago, in 2013, was offered a conceptual Hyperloop project, whose goal is the creation of a network of fundamentally new trains moving due to the magnetism inside a special vacuum tunnels. This train can accelerate up to 800 miles per hour. In the past 2015 in the US started to build the first section of the road Hyperloop, which will conduct the first series of sled tests.
3. Vertical crop
According to forecasts of scientists, by 2050 urbanization on Earth leads to the fact that 80% of people will live in cities. Who will feed such a mass of citizens? This is a difficult issue and very alarming. Fortunately for him, there are several reasonable answers. One of the most compelling (answers) is a relatively recently proposed concept of vertical farming. In other words, farms will be located directly in the cities, moreover, some of them will be placed directly into residential buildings.
4. Three-dimensional printing
The technology of 3D printing is definitely in the foreseeable future will be in manufacturing the same revolution as the division of labour, manufacture and conveyor. Today, this technology is gaining popularity, and three-dimensional means of production are becoming more accessible. It is also important that this method of production is applicable to a variety of industries, ranging from electronics and engineering, ending with the frosting.
5. “Smart” system for home
System “smart” house exist today, moreover, they already have enough functionality. The most progressive samples even able to find tenants, their relatives and friends. Such systems can incredibly improve the quality of life and what is important – the energy efficiency of housing. To date, the case remained for small – to make such systems accessible to a wide range of people, and as the history of scientific and technological progress of our civilization is inevitable.
6. Holograms
The fruit of the minds of science fiction writers in the twenty-first century becoming a reality. Although for a long time holograms have been something fantastic, today there are dozens of conceptual and prototypes of the technology. The range of applications is limitless. Mainly holograms will be used as alternative to modern screens and monitors.
7. Homemade robots and drones
Automated appliances is gaining popularity. The development of smart systems and development of algorithms and sensors orientation in space allow us to create increasingly sophisticated domestic drones. In recent years, appeared on the market a relatively affordable robot vacuum cleaners, those riding lawnmowers, man and many others like them.
8. Bionics
The mixture of technology and biology – in the mid XX century, science fiction writers and futurists have described such things as a terrible interference in “God’s Providence”, with the result in the form of soulless cyborgs. Today morality is changing, and more and more people do not see anything wrong in improving the human body using implants and prosthetics. Although this topic is very controversial, it’s hard to argue with the fact that it is “high” prosthetics would have helped to return sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf and limbs to those who lost them.
9. Artificial intelligence
And of course, not to mention such fields as robotics. In the last 10 years has achieved many encouraging results. In the last 5 years, progress of corporations and research groups even starts to scare you. So, in 2015, the computer was able to beat the man to “Go” – the most difficult for computers Board game. In the same year, several market players submitted their algorithms de facto, the forerunner of a full-fledged artificial intelligence.
10. Nanotechnology
The concept “nanotechnology” is wide enough for a variety of industries. However, as in the case of “upper dentures, hopes and aspirations of science imposes on the use of such technologies in medicine. Methods offered by the direction, will allow how to treat the most serious illness, and to adjust the human DNA.
