Recently, I began thinking about the rapidity of technological progress. After researching where we currently are technologically I discovered many things that truly amaze me.

1. EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
Welcome To The Future

2. 3D PRINTING & SCANNING
 Desktop Manufacturing
 Tools
 Eyeglass Frames
 Coffee Cups
 Yarn
 Moving Parts
 Food
 Etc…
 Medicine*
 Organs
 Models (neurons, living tumors, etc.)
 Construction
 Homes (10 per day) and more…

3. INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
 Lamps
 Thermostats
 Appliances
 Vehicles
 Garage Door Openers
 Baby Blankets
 Arduino
 IFTTT
 Belkin WeMo
 Nest
 SmartThings
 Jawbone*
 Philips Hue
 Samsung

4. VIRTUAL & AUGMENTED REALITY (VR/AR)
 Google Glass/Cardboard
 PlayStation VR
 Microsoft HoloLens
 Oculus Rift
 HTC Vive
 Audio
 OLED
 Windows
 Displays
 Virtual Keyboards

5. NEW MATERIALS
 Graphene / Carbon Nanotubes = Nanotech
 One Atom Thick Yet 2000x Stronger Than Steel
 Ideal Semiconductor (better than silicon)
 Transparent, Conductive, & Flexible
 Advanced Battery Technology
 Advanced Solar Technology
 Advanced Display Technology
 Quantum Properties

6. SOLAR ENERGY & BATTERY TECHNOLOGY
 Silicon solar cell technology has been maxed out
for 15yrs at 25% efficiency
 Soon perovskite cells will be way more efficient
 New materials used in battery technology
 Sodium
 Aluminum
 Zinc

7. MORE NEW MATERIALS
 Metamaterials = Cloaking Tech
 Materials With Properties Not Found In Nature
 Negative Refraction
 Quantum Properties
 Nano-gecko-adhesive (4x4” supports 660lbs.)
 Aerogel = Light, Insulating & Strong
 Melts @ 1292 F / 39x More Insulating (than fiberglass) / Support
2000x It’s Own Weight

8. MILITARY TECHNOLOGY
 Directed Energy Weapons
 LaWS (Laser Weapon System)
 100kW? = CLASSIFIED
 Range / Firing Rate = CLASSIFIED
 Railguns
 23lb? to Mach 7.5 = 5000mph
 200mi Range? / Firing Rate = CLASSIFIED
 Kinetic Energy (33+ Megajoules = CLASSIFIED)
 Robots
 Air, Land & Sea Based
 Atlas
 Exoskeletons
 Autonomous*
 Ethics?
 Robots May Replace ¼ Of U.S. Combat Soldiers By 2030 – Gen. Robert Cone (doctrine)
 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/12/drone-ethics-briefing-what-a-leading-robot-expert-told-the-
cia/250060/

9. ROBOTS
 Bionics
 Drones (much more than Amazon)
 Artificial Intelligence (AI)*
 Next Gen AI = Autonomy
 Self-Driving Vehicles (2020)
 Atlas
 Baxter
 Jibo
 NASA’s Robonaut
 IBM's Watson
 The Singularity!
 Kurzweil – 2029/2045
 Moore’s Law
 Nearly half of American jobs today could be automated in "a decade or two," according to new research. The
question is: Which half?
 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/what-jobs-will-the-robots-take/283239/

10. THE SINGULARITY
 Ray Kurzweil
 Seven Books / The Singularity Is Near
 A point in the future (2045), when a greater-than-human intelligence irreversibly changes the
arc of humanity's future. The theory predicts an artificially intelligent machine that's so smart,
people cannot even comprehend its abilities. Some call this, “our final invention,” and say it will
be the harbinger of “the post-Human era.”
 Invented Flatbed Scanner
 Invented Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
 Invented Text-To-Speech & Print To Speech Synthesizers
 Invented Piano Synthesizer
 Awarded National Medal Of Technology By Pres. Clinton
 20 Honorary Doctorates
 PBS Selected Him As One Of 16 “Revolutionaries Who Made
America” For His Work In Pattern Recognition (AI)
 A prodigy from Queens created hardware and software to help blind people read and
musicians make music. His inventions, writings, and influential thinking have explored and
exploited technology in many ways, and helped shape ongoing work in artificial intelligence.
 Currently Director Of Engineering @ Google

11. QUANTUM COMPUTING
 Entanglement / Superposition (Einstein’s, “Spooky Action”)
 Faster Than Light
 Indeterminate State
 Qbits
 D-Wave Systems
 Schrodinger’s Cat: If you put a cat in a box, add poison gas activated by the decay of a radioactive atom and
seal the box, it is impossible to determine the state of the cat until the box is opened. Until opening the cat is in a
state of superposition, both dead and alive at once.
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130812-physics-schrodinger-erwin-google-doodle-cat-paradox-
science/