Gartner list of ten strategic technologies is a subset of McKinsey's twelve disruptive technologies. Gartner has released its top 10 strategic technology trends for 2014 and there is a lot of overlap with the McKinsey list of 12 disruptive technologies that was released about 6 months ago.
Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt. The McKinsey Global Institute identifies 12 technologies that could drive truly massive economic transformations and disruptions in the coming years.
Applications of the 12 technologies discussed in the report could have a potential economic impact between $14 trillion and $33 trillion a year in 2025. Inside Google Translate. Robot, automation joint shows reveal recession-proof industry. Despite the gloomy global economy, the automation and related industries have done “pretty well,” Eric Chuo, chairman of the Taiwan Automation Intelligence and Robotics Association, said at the event's opening ceremony.
“It is the age of intelligence and automation,” said Chuo, who is also chairman and chief executive officer of Hiwin Technologies Corp. David Brin on the Path to Positive Sousveillance. David Brin and Ben Goertzel Ben Goertzel dialogues with the author of The Transparent Society Isaac Asimov’s classic 1956 story “The Dead Past” describes a technology that lets everyone spy on everyone else everywhere.
S 2013 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Maps Out Evolving Relationship Between Humans and Machines. STAMFORD, Conn., August 19, 2013 View All Press Releases 2013 Hype Cycle Special Report Evaluates the Maturity of More Than 1,900 Technologies Gartner to Host Complimentary Webinar "Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle for 2013: Redefining the Relationship," August 21 at 10 a.m.
EDT and 1 p.m. EDT The evolving relationship between humans and machines is the key theme of Gartner, Inc.' Gartner's 2013 Hype Cycle Special Report provides strategists and planners with an assessment of the maturity, business benefit and future direction of more than 2,000 technologies, grouped into 98 areas. The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report is the longest-running annual Hype Cycle, providing a cross-industry perspective on the technologies and trends that senior executives, CIOs, strategists, innovators, business developers and technology planners should consider in developing emerging-technology portfolios.
Figure 1. Source: Gartner August 2013 1. Carnegie Mellon University. Browse the Knowledge Base! Can computers learn to read? We think so. "Read the Web" is a research project that attempts to create a computer system that learns over time to read the web. Since January 2010, our computer system called NELL (Never-Ending Language Learner) has been running continuously, attempting to perform two tasks each day: First, it attempts to "read," or extract facts from text found in hundreds of millions of web pages (e.g., playsInstrument(George_Harrison, guitar)). Dancing with Robots: Human Skills for Computerized Work. 7 Gadget Predictions Sci-Fi Authors Got Right. Book:Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.
The Freebase APIs: <span style="font-size:0.8em">Tapping into Google's Knowledge Graph</span> - Google IO 2012. 3D printing just got a lot more colorful with the ProDesk3D. We’re seeing rapid adoption of 3D printers from both engineers and modeling enthusiasts alike, and now we’re entering the stage of full-color 3D printing for the masses. botObjects, a New York-based hardware and software company, has recently announced that it will be shipping what they are calling the world’s first full-color desktop 3D printer.
Dubbed the ProDesk3D, this desktop 3D printer uses a proprietary five-color polylactic acid (PLA) cartridge to create 3D objects using any combination of colors you wish. Combined with a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) support material, the ProDesk3D allows colorful, strong, and elaborate objects to be created quickly and easily. MIT tech turns any surface into a user interface, but it’s useless without Google Glass. With Google Glass just around the corner, augmented reality is finally becoming a realistic part of our foreseeable future.
The idea of AR — that we could dynamically edit information into (or out of) a live video feed as it’s being displayed — has never been undercut by software or hardware power, but by the simple fact that the concept requires both a camera and a display. Videos for Spaun simulations. The pill camera that's easy to swallow - Video - Technology. 200908 - A02.pdf. More Than Human? The Ethics of Biologically Enhancing Soldiers - Patrick Lin. Our ability to "upgrade" the bodies of soldiers through drugs, implants, and exoskeletons may be upending the ethical norms of war as we've understood them.
If we can engineer a soldier who can resist torture, would it still be wrong to torture this person with the usual methods? Starvation and sleep deprivation won't affect a super-soldier who doesn't need to sleep or eat. Beatings and electric shocks won't break someone who can't feel pain or fear like we do. 2012-02-06-BW3.pdf.