Emerging Technologies

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1960 A.D. to 2030 A.D.
Lan, Wan, Intranet & Internet established.
Use of petroleum as fuel & Nucl ear fission pow er pl ants in use.
Mass production adv ances to al loys and pl astic dev elopment.
Computers become common and primitiv e space trav el starts.
Increase in serv ice-oriented and computer -based occupations .
Apol lo11 moon l anding by Neil Armstrong & Buzz Al drin in 1969.
Art of w ar created w ith chemical, biol ogical & Cyber w arfare.
Mass transportation expands in the form of buses and trains .
Mobil e phones became w idely av ailable in the l ate 1980s.
IBM Simon w as the first phone w ith a touch screen in 1992.
Long distance communication improv es w ith fibre optics.
Hybrid technol ogy for v ehicles w as impl emented in 1997.
First DSLR camera Nikon D1 w as made av ailable in 1999.
2009 A.D.
Personal computers are capable to perform a tril l ion cal culations.
Cabl es starting to become obsol ete w ith new w irel ess technology.
Pocket readers for the bl ind and v isually impaired are dev eloped.
El ectric cars are dev eloped w hich require onl y el ectricity as fuel .
Computer controlled orthotic dev ices for paraplegic indiv iduals.
High resol ution displ ays are embedded in cl othes and gadgets.
Speech recognition is impl emented w ith on the go transl ation.
Intelligent courseware has emerged as means of l earning.
Speech to text conv erters for the deaf are dev eloped.