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Humanizing Technology Prize: The Nominees (Self-Help) Humanizing Technology Prize: The Nominees (Self-Help) The New Digital Literacy. In the 21st century economy, we are the programmers and the programmed.

The New Digital Literacy

What does that mean? According to the media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed, people like to think of technologies and media as neutral and that only their use or content determines their impact. For instance, "Guns don't kill people, after all, people kill people. " Envisioning emerging technology — by Michell Zappa. Holographic data storage. Holographic data storage is a potential technology in the area of high-capacity data storage currently dominated by magnetic and conventional optical data storage.

Holographic data storage

Magnetic and optical data storage devices rely on individual bits being stored as distinct magnetic or optical changes on the surface of the recording medium. Holographic data storage records information throughout the volume of the medium and is capable of recording multiple images in the same area utilizing light at different angles. List of emerging technologies. Agriculture[edit] Biomedical[edit] Displays[edit] Electronics[edit] Energy[edit] IT and communications[edit]

List of emerging technologies

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