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Gartner: Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020
Highlights the top strategic technology trends that organizations need to explore in 2020. Analysts presented their findings during an IT Symposium. These trends were predicted prior to the societal upheaval caused by the pandemic....
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Consensys: Blockchain Use Cases and Applications by Industry
Blockchain technology's core characteristics include decentralization, transparency, immutability, and automation. These elements can be applied to various industries, creating a multitude of use cases. Here are what we believe to be the...
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Youth Time Magazine: The Impact of Technology on the Future of Work
An interview with David Timis who studies the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of work. He discusses how youth can prepare themselves. Includes a 30-minute video. (Published August 30, 2020)
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Science Fiction Can Help Predict the Future
Everyone from governments to military to industry leaders do as well, and they all employ people called futurists who attempt to forecast the future. Roey Tzezana explains some of the ways that futurists venture to do so. [5:22]
Popular Science
Popular Science: In 2021 You Will Enjoy Total Recall
A futuristic article about a technology that will track your life's journeys and memories is found at this Popular Science website.
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An Illustrated Speculative Timeline of Future Technology
J.R. Mooneyham speculates a timeline of futuristic technologies and how they might change humanity.
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School in the Park
School in the Park is a unique program connecting inner city schools and students with academic and cultural experiences through local museums to offer opportunities which might not otherwise be available to them. This particular program...
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Vision Technology for the Totally Blind
An interesting application of wearable computing that is helping blind people "see". vOICe technology uses synthetic (bionic) vision through auditory video representations, combined with current brain implant and retinal implant...
Florida State University
Florida State University: Magnet Lab: Magnetic Thin Films
This gallery takes readers from the 1880s and the pioneering work of German physicist August Kundt, up to recent advances in technology, including interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) and giant magnetoresistance (GMR).
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Florida State University: Magnet Lab: Metallic Superlattices
A look at superlattices (alternating layers of thin films deposited in an orderly manner), methods for forming them, and their applications.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Technology, Progress & Industry: What Should the Future Look Like?
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What should the future look like?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center: Concerns About the Future of People's Well Being
As in all great technological revolutions, digital life has and will continue to have a dark side. A discussion that explores this issue.
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Pew Research Center: The Future of Well Being in a Tech Saturated World
A discussion of how future technologies will affect our well-being.
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Pocket Lint: Life in the Future: Tech That Will Change the Way We Live
Technology has the power to do many things, and changing the world is one of them. We're privileged to be living in a time where science and technology can assist us, make our lives easier, and rethink the ways we go about our daily...
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Futurism: Does Life in 2018 Live Up to What We Predicted a Century Ago?
People in the early 20th century were hopeful about the future that innovation might bring. The technology that came out of World War I, and the growing potential brought by electricity (half of all U.S. homes had electric power by 1925)...
BBC
Bbc News: Strange Predictions for the Future From 1930
Describes some fantastic predictions made in the 1930s for what technology might bring in the future, for example, the creation of a sea in the Sahara Desert and the widespread ownership of personal airplanes. (Published 26 December 2014)
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Paleofuture: The History of the Future: 42 Amazing High Tech Predictions From the 1950s and '60S
It's the 21st century, but sometimes it feels like our futuristic dreams are stuck in the 1950s and 60s. And there's actually a good reason for that. The period between 1958 and 1963 might be described as a Golden Age of American...
University of Washington
University of Washington: Alumni News: Technology: The World of 2088
Published in 1998, this article offers 10- and 20-year predictions for how technology would change the world we live in.
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Medium: Voices From the Past What the 1960s Thought of Us?
Bizarre predictions of Arthur C. Clarke that came true! And a few that didn't. (Published Sept. 6, 2020)
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Kwasi: 7 Futuristic Predictions From 1968 That Came True
In 1968, a science fiction writer named James R. Berry wrote an article entitled '40 Years in the Future' for the magazine Mechanix Illustrated. It was his futuristic vision of the 21st Century. Berry's predictions of a world featuring...
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Free Code Camp: The Absolute Worst Technology Predictions of the Past 150 Years
Technology has proven to be extraordinarily slippery over the past century. Despite the vast information that industry insiders have had at they're fingertips, they've made some pretty terrible forecasts over the years. The predictions...
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Try Nano: Applications: Applications of Nanotechnology
Article discusses promising applications of nanotechnology to computing and processing technologies and to the consumer goods, materials and manufacturing, energy, and transportation industries.