Technology continues to dominate at full speed by creating motion in all life stages of human beings. Almost every day, a new technology emerges and makes life easier, transforming and improving. Today, while the benefits and harms of technology are being discussed, all sectors, especially the business world, consumer profile, production and education, are faced with radical conditions. Thus, clues about the future are revealed. We wrote about today’s next-generation technologies that give clues about the future. Innovation, Industry 4.0, Society 5.0… With the dizzying technological developments in the last quarter of the 20th century, new concepts enter our lives. The latest technological developments are changing the lives of human beings by triggering many economic and socio-cultural changes, both in physical and theoretical dimensions. 3D printer models, unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous vehicles, industrial robots and many other technologies, whose footsteps we hear today, foretell the future.
1. 3D Printers’ Capabilities Will Increase
The volume of 3D printers is growing very quickly. It is predicted that 3D printers, which offer many advantages such as rapid prototyping, reducing costs and producing higher quality products in the manufacturing sector, will become a sector with a volume of 49 billion dollars in 2025. It is understood that three-dimensional printing technology will find a wide place in the production line. According to a study, 51 percent of mass production companies see 3D printing as an alternative production method. Many experts in the medical field also predict that 3D printers can be used as a solution to problems, and uncomplicated organs and cartilage tissues can be produced through 3D printers. The fact that a shelter was produced in less than 24 hours by a 3D printer shows that the problem of homelessness can also be avoided. The support of three-dimensional printers for food production by NASA indicates that the problem of hunger can be prevented in the future.
2. Drones Will Take Over the Delivery Job
Today, drone technologies are reshaping industries ranging from agriculture to filmmaking and taking business to the skies. Equipped with cameras and sensors, drones have the potential to revolutionize cargo transportation as they cost much less than road transport vehicles. The success of Amozon’s attempt to deliver to its customers in Cambridge via drone has opened the doors of a new era in cargo transportation. Bringing life-saving drugs to regions where it is difficult to find drugs during the pandemic process, by reducing the contact to zero, reveals that drone delivery can be used frequently in the future. Of course, for this, a number of problems such as high buildings, narrow streets, legal problems, noise pollution created by drones need to be solved.
3. Roads Will Open to Autonomous Vehicles
Companies leading the technology world and automotive giants are racing to produce autonomous vehicles and increasing their investment volume. Autonomous vehicles with basic ADAS system building blocks such as speed control, automatic emergency braking and lane-departure warning are expected to become widespread when the question marks created by the involvement of autonomous vehicles consisting of sensor technologies such as artificial intelligence, cameras, network infrastructure, radar and lidar in various accidents are eliminated. The development of network infrastructure also paves the way for systems where computers take over the driving task.
4. Robots Will Join Us
Industrial robots, which provide many advantages from performing repetitive tasks to lifting heavy loads, consolidate their place in the production sector with the advantages they provide despite nightmare scenarios such as unemployment. Especially in the automotive industry, a large number of robots are used. Modeled on technology, China has become the world’s largest country in the production and use of industrial robots. Researches reveal that in the next five years, 5 percent of workers in China will be robots. The developments in China, which is considered to be a giant in technology, are also encouraging for other countries. It seems possible that humanoid robots such as Atlas, the world’s most dynamic humanoid robot, will come to the fore more.
5. Cities Will Get Smarter
The smart city is at the forefront of new structures created with developing technologies since the last quarter of the 20th century. United Nations reports reveal that 2/3 of people will live in cities by 2050. In this context, smart city technologies are becoming a necessity. Smart cities, where assets and resources will be used in the most efficient way thanks to electronic data collection sensors, have the potential to make the world more livable with great economic and environmental gains.
6. Artificial Intelligence Will Compile All Fields
Artificial intelligence, which has become the most heated debate of the millennium with the debate between Tesla’s founder Elon Musk and Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, creates a transformation in many areas. Artificial intelligence, whose history goes back to the 1950s, is one of the areas that the whole world invests in today. Artificial intelligence draws attention with its potential to create radical changes in many fields from economy to health, from trade to production.
7. Television Evolves with 8K Display Technology
In the 20s, mechanical television consisted of a tiny screen on a giant box. In the second half of the 30s, there were developments in sound technologies. In the 1950s, round-screen televisions were produced that gave more realistic colors. In the 1960s, sales of color televisions exploded. In 1970, curved screens that looked like toys were produced. In the 1980s, large-screen LCD televisions were produced. In the 1990s, Sony’s Trinitron model, which includes a radio and VCR player, started a trend.The real big change in television started at the end of the 90s. After flat-screen HD televisions, tube televisions, plasmas and 4K TV models fell into the world of technology like a bombshell. In 2019, ambiance televisions that harmonize with the environment and the color of the wall appeared before us. Today, we are faced with the Samsung Q950TS QLED 8K TV model, which deserves the phrase “frameless”. The journey that started with black and white movies continues with a TV experience where we feel the colors and sound right next to us. The Samsung Q800T QLED 8K TV transforms the home environment into a movie theater with its artificial intelligence-supported features.New generation technologies are reshaping the television industry. One of these technologies, 8K technology, which has become a status symbol today, sheds light on the future of televisions as the highest resolution value. The first TV in the industry with an ultra-thin form factor, the Samsung Q950TS QLED 8K TV creates a stunning Infinity Display effect from a distance of approximately 3-5 meters with a screen-to-body ratio of close to 99 percent. Offering a series of smart features, Samsung 8K technology eliminates the problem of 8K content by upgrading your content to 8K with its processor equipped with artificial intelligence.
8. A New Era with Wireless Energy
Studies on wireless power, that is, wireless energy, which Tesla put forward in the early 1900s, continue. Although Tesla has not succeeded in lighting the electric lamps a few miles away with the WardenClyffe tower without any cables or contacts, companies such as Intel and Sony continue to invest in this area.
9. Immersive Media Will Change News Presentation
In today’s digital age, as a requirement of intense information flow, virtual reality applications are used in journalism and emotional participation of the audience is ensured. Immersive journalism, which paves the way for more empathy, has the potential to be the future of journalism. Immersive media, which combines the features of virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality, is not globally widespread, but it seems that it will shape the established media in the future and bring a different perspective to its transformation.
10. Vacation Understanding Will Change With Space Tourism
Commercial space, which came to the fore with the launch of Telstar1 satellite in 1962, opens the doors of a new adventure. Launched in 1981, the Space Shuttle program forms the basis of space tourism. No such attempt was made until 1997, when Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher in space, died in 1986 when the Challenger exploded. With the establishment of SpaceDev in 1997, private sector entrepreneurs became more interested in space tourism. The space industry continues to come to the fore with the excitement of the 21st century. It is understood that space tourism, which has become the new vision of millionaires, will change the understanding of vacation in the future. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin), Virgin Group founder Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic) and Paypal founder Elon Musk (SpaceX) are running a space race among themselves.
