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Emerging technology

Status

4G cellular communication

First commercial LTE networks deployed in Sweden December 2009; candidate broadband systems LTEadvanced and IEEE 802.16m (Mobile WiMAX Release 2) in development

Pervasive computing

Mobile broadband, mobil e TV, Interactive TV, 3D-TV, [74] holographic ca meras[74]

Ambient intelligence

Theory

Artificial brain

Research

[75]

Neurological disease's Blue Brain treatments, artificial Project intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Theory, experiments; limited uses in Human decision, specialized analysis, etc. domains[76][77][78]

Progress in artificial intelligence, tech Creating intelligent nological devices singularity, applic ations of artificial intelligence

Atomtronics

Theory

Augmented Reality

diffusion

Cybermethodology

Emerging memory In development technologies T-RAM,ZRAM, TTRAM,CBRAM, S

Current memory technologies

Emerging technology

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ONOS,RRAM, Racetrack memory, NRAM,Millipede memory

Fourth-generation optical discs (3D optical data storage,Holographic data storage)

Research, prototyping[79]

All other mass Storing and storagemethods/de archiving data vices,magnetic tape previously erased data for economic storage, optical reasons data storage

Holographic Disc stores Ultra HD big Electronic IT companies are interested in this technology it has bigger capacity than Blu-ray Disc10x times more than optical storage

Diffusion of non General-purpose computing standardized on graphics processing units methods

CPU for a few specialized uses

Order of magnitude faster processing of parallelizablealgo rithms

Machine augmented cognition, exocortices

Diffusion of primitive amplifications; Libraries, schools,t working prototypes raining, pocket of more; theory, calculators experiments on more substantial amplification

Machine translation

Diffusion[80][81]

Human translation of natural languages, in areas Easier and cheaper where cross-cultural misunderstanding communication is non-critical and language isformalized

Machine vision

Research, prototyping,

Biotic vision and perception,

Biometrics, controlling

Computer vision, pattern

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commercialization[82]

processes (e.g., in driverless car, automated guided vehicle), detecting events recognition, digit including humans (e.g., in al image visualsurveillance), processing interaction (e.g., inhuman-computer interaction),robot vision

Mobile collaboration

Development, commercialization[83]

Extends the capabilities of video conferencing for use on hand-held mobile devices in Traditional videoreal-time over conferencing secure networks. systems For use in diverse industries such as manufacturing, energy, healthcare.
[84]

Optical computing

Theory, experiments; Smaller, faster, some components of Many electronicsde lower power integrated circuits vices, integrated consuming have been circuits computing [85] developed

Quantum computing

Much faster computing, for some kinds of Atomtronics, problems, chemical Theory, experiments, Electronic modeling, new [86] commercialization[ computing, optical materials with 87] computing,quantu programmed m clock properties, theory of high-temperature superconductivityan d superfluidity

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Quantum cryptography

Commercialization[88
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Secure communications

Radio-frequency identification

Diffusion of high cost[89][90][91]

Barcode

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

Semantic Web oranswer machine

Theory, research

Search engines

Making the web machine-readable by annotating data on the web based on its meaning

Speech recognition

Mechanical input devices

Development, Three-dimensional integrated Conventionalintegr commercialization[92] circuit ated circuit [93]

Virtual Reality

diffusion

Television

Entertainment, education