• Question: Where do you think we will be with techology in the next 10 years?

    Asked by benc to Hitesh, Hywel, Mae, Nik, Tiffany on 19 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tiffany Taylor

      Tiffany Taylor answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      I think we’ll have one device which works as our phone, computer, camera, personal organiser, book, laptop… everything! I also think electrical items will be integrated in the house. So my cooker, tv, lights… everything will be controlled in one place (probably via the device I mentioned which works as everything else!).

    • Photo: Mae Woods

      Mae Woods answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      Hiya benc.

      I will give you three things that are currently hot topics in technology at the moment.

      I reckon we will have much smaller devices that work just as well as the large ones we have today. A big area of research at the moment is nanotechnology and robotics. People like to carry things like phones and computers around with them and people are spending a lot of money on making smaller computers. Scientists are even coming up with emotional robots!

      There is also the prospect of an invisibility cloak to look forward to! Scientists used mathematics to understand how light bends. Here the material of the cloak bends light rays around so that anything inside the cloak is hidden. This will not be in the shops for a long time sadly, but maybe in the next 10 years!

      On the health care side of things: Researchers at Oxford and Monash universities are making glasses to help people who cannot see. They are doing this by fitting a pair of glasses with two cameras. One that records what is in front of the person and the other that tracks the eye balls so that the person can direct the camera where to look. The images would then be transmitted to the persons brain through a small implant. Cool hey?

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      Hitesh Dave answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      The way we progressing It’s not far we going to have flying cars which will be much faster and easy to travel..We all will have superpower in our hands….:-)

    • Photo: Nicola Ibberson

      Nicola Ibberson answered on 20 Jun 2012:

      In terms of genetics, technology is moving at an alarming rate. Very soon we will be able to sequence the entire genome of a patient at their hospital bedside, and the software inside the machine will then automatically flag up what they are likely to be allergic to, what drugs they are most likely to respond to, and if there is anything in their genes to explain the symptoms they are experiencing.

      This is starting to happen already but is currently done on huge expensive equipment in a lab, and we are currently working through potential issues and logistics of how patients will cope with this huge amount of previously unknown information.

      Exciting times!

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