IT and communications[edit]

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4G cellular communication

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

broadbandPervasive computing

Mobile broadband,mobile TV, Interactive TV, 3D-TV,[80

]holographiccameras[80]

Ambient intelligence Hypothetical

Artificial brain Research[81] Neurological disease's treatments, artificial

Blue Brain Project

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intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Hypothetical, experiments; limited uses in specialized domains[82][83][84]

Human decision, analysis, etc.

Creating intelligent devices

Progress in artificial intelligence,technological singularity, applications of artificial intelligence

Atomtronics Hypothetical

Augmented Reality diffusion

Bitcoin DiffusionCentral banking

Money supply, World reserve currency

Cryptocurrency, Digital currency

Cybermethodology

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Emerging memory technologiesT-RAM, Z-RAM, TTRAM,CBRAM, SONOS, RRAM,Racetrack memory, NRAM,Millipede memory

In developmentCurrent memory technologies

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

Research, prototyping[85]

Some mass storagemethods/devices, magnetic tape data storage, optical data storage

Storing and archiving data previously erased for economic reasons

Blu-ray Disc, Optical storage

General-purpose computing on graphics processing units

Diffusion of non standardized methods

CPU for a few specialized uses

Order of magnitude faster processing ofparallelizable algorithms

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Machine augmented cognition,exocortices

Diffusion of primitive amplifications; working prototypes of more; Hypothetical, experiments on more substantial amplification

Libraries, schools, training, pocket calculators

Machine translation Diffusion[86][87]

Human translation of natural languages, in areas where misunderstanding is non-critical and language isformalized

Easier and cheaper cross-cultural communication

Machine vision Research, Biotic vision Biometrics, Computer

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prototyping, commercialization[81]

and perception, including humans

controlling processes (e.g., indriverless car, automated guided vehicle), detecting events (e.g., in visual surveillance), interaction (e.g., in human-computer interaction), robot vision

vision,pattern recognition,digital image processing

Mobile collaboration Development, commercialization[88]

Traditional video-conferencing systems

Extends the capabilities of video conferencing for use on hand-held

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mobile devices in real-time over secure networks. For use in diverse industries such as manufacturing, energy, healthcare.[89]

Optical computing

Hypothetical, experiments; some components of integrated circuits have been developed[90]

Many electronics devices, integrated circuits

Smaller, faster, lower power consuming computing

Quantum computing Hypothetical, experiments,[91

]commercializat

Atomtronics,Electronic computing, optical

Much faster computing, for some kinds of problems,

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ion[92] computing, quantum clock

chemical modeling, new materials with programmed properties, Hypothetical of high-temperature superconductivity and superfluidity

Quantum cryptography

Commercialization[93]

Secure communications

Radio-frequency identification

Diffusion of high cost[94][95][96]

Barcode Smartstores - RFID based self checkout(keeping track of all incoming and outgoing products), food

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packaging, smart shelves, smart carts. See: potential uses

Semantic Web or answer machine

Research, limited use

Web 2.0

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

Corporate Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, Semantic Web Stack, Web 3.0

Software-defined radio

Development, commercialization

Traditional, frequency-specific radio circuits, dedicated signal processinghardware

Cognitive radio, mesh networks, software defined antenna

GNU Radio, Universal Software Radio Peripheral

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Speech recognition

Research, Development, Commercialization

Mechanical input devices

Three-dimensional integrated circuit

Development, commercialization[97][98]

Conventional integrated circuit

Virtual Reality DiffusionEntertainment, education

Oculus Rift