Labels are the black regular-weight entries of each volume table of contents (volumes 01-13), in printed order. Coloured bold entries are sections, black medium-weight entries are sub-sections. Volume 00 (methodology) and per-volume Key Insights, Key Terms, Scenario, Application, Key Questions and Selected Sources entries are excluded and listed in skipped_toc_items. Quotes are the first sentence under the trend heading in the body. The PDF was released in mid-March 2022 (SXSW); Wayback first capture 2022-03-16. Update 2026-10-02 (D40): umbrella section pages that carry the year tag and a KEY INSIGHT count as trends; 5 sub-section headings of the contents have such a page and were appended as entries 588-592 (scripts/ftsg-tech-trends/append_umbrella_2022.py, found by sweep_year_tags.py). Page 6 (methodology page with a sample Scoring page and its tag) is not an entry.
Machine learning is transitioning, as new platforms allow businesses to leverage the power of AI to build applications without the need to know specific code.
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Mining very large, unstructured datasets is now easier thanks to advanced natural language processing collection and classification.
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Hyperscalers like AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft’s Azure, Google Cloud, and Baidu Cloud are rolling out new offerings and packages for developers with the goal of making it easier and more affordable for a wide swath of AI startups to launch their ideas into the marketplace.
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Google’s AI-based autocomplete technology is finding new applications.
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Today’s neural networks have long required an enormous amount of computing power, take a long time to train, and rely on data centers and computers that consume hundreds of kilowatts of power.
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RPA can automate certain tasks and processes within offices and allow employees to spend time on higher-value work.
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AI systems are being trained to detect possible workplace injuries.
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Computer vision can anticipate and identify failures in physical locations.
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Who’s to blame when machines behave badly?
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Amazon, Google, and Facebook have all come under fire in the past few years for manipulating their search systems to prioritize results that are more profitable for their companies.
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Online hubs to share, buy, and sell models are growing in popularity.
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Insurance companies are applying AI to assess damage and improve forecasts.
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As the global pandemic kept people indoors, consumers increasingly relied on e-commerce to shop.
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Traditional software has a short and unpredictable shelf life compared with other engineering tools.
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A new type of neural network can determine how people are feeling.
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AI can now measure biomarkers that suggest a person’s emotional state, such as agitation, sadness, or giddiness.
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Research teams at Loving AI and Hanson Robotics are teaching machines unconditional love, active listening, and empathy.
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Researchers recently showed how AI could be used to compose text so good that humans couldn’t tell it was machine written.
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Low-code and no-code offerings from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud will start to trickle down to everyday people, who will create their own AI applications and deploy them as easily as they can a website.
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Digital assistants (DAs)—like Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and their Chinese counterpart, Tiān Māo from Alibaba—use semantic and natural language processing, along with our data, to anticipate what we want or need to do next, sometimes before we even know to ask.
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Wombo is a lip-syncing app that allows consumers to transform any photo of a person into a video of that person singing.
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A number of startups are building customizable, trainable platforms capable of learning from you—and then representing you online via personal digital twins.
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Last year, the South African government granted a patent to an AI system called Dabus, which invented a method to interlock food containers.
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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are capable of far more than generating deepfake videos.
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During the 2022 Super Bowl, several ads made use of deepfakes, most notably a commercial featuring basketball star LeBron James talking to a de-aged version of himself.
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Starting with a 2D image, researchers can now create a rich 3D view of a scene using a neural network to capture and generate spatial imagery.
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Nvidia is teaching AI to build realistic 3D environments from short video clips.
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Creating content can be a time-consuming, resource-intensive process.
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Anyone who’s ever recorded a podcast is familiar with editing challenges such as guests talking over each other, interruptions from sirens and other background noises, and inconvenient sneezes.
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For some time, we’ve been training computers to watch videos and predict corresponding sounds in our physical world.
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Modern interfaces are able to do more for us with fewer direct actions—yet still captivate our attention.
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In 2020, DeepMind’s AI made a big announcement: It had solved a 50- year grand challenge with AlphaFold, an AI tool that predicts the structure of proteins.
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Running experiments with several variables often requires tiny, methodical tweaks to measurements, materials, and inputs.
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COVID-19 accelerated the use of AI in drug discovery.
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New medical algorithms address the level of patient care in the U.S. Patients experience symptoms differently, and their care is based on how they describe their symptoms and how those symptoms are interpreted by doctors.
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A new system designed to improve stroke outcomes, Viz.ai, showed promising results last year in a real-world study.
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Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are applying deep learning to microscopy, which until now had relied on humans to painstakingly organize, observe, and analyze microscopic samples.
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Natural language processing (NLP) algorithms, which are typically used for words and sentences, are being used to interpret genetic changes in viruses.
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The success of therapy and counseling requires trust between a clinician or doctor and patient—and that trust is built through dialogue.
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Scientists discovered how to establish two-way communication channels between lucid dreamers.
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Deep neural networks are being used to analyze emotional states using wireless signals.
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Last year, the European Commission introduced a new proposal to regulate the use of artificial intelligence.
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Governments are instituting new restrictions on mergers and acquisitions and investment activity to ensure that AI developed by companies does not aid foreign adversaries.
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Government researchers are exploring ways to spearhead AI development for critical systems use: road and rail transportation systems; power generation and distribution; and predicting routes for public safety vehicles, such as ambulances and firetrucks.
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The U.S. National Defense Authorization Act includes provisions that address the growing problem of deepfakes, and the Department of Homeland Security must now issue an annual report each year for the next five years on the risk posed by deepfakes.
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You’ve undoubtedly heard someone argue that AI is becoming a “black box”—that even researchers working in the field don’t understand how our newest systems work.
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New strategic technical alliances between countries will help drive future R&D but could also strain existing geopolitical alliances or heighten tensions.
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In 2021, the U.S. military said that it had started using AI to guide its airstrikes, deploying algorithms to a live operational kill chain.
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Future wars will be fought in code, using data and algorithms as powerful weapons.
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Project Maven was developed to enlist AI to analyze surveillance video.
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In 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden announced a Pentagon budget request with $874 million earmarked for direct investment in AI.
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In February 2022, Tencent made the list of the world’s 10 most valuable companies, with a valuation of $589 billion.
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The CCP’s Chinese Governance Committee for the New Generation Artificial Intelligence released a draft of its new ethical norms and standards that all AI systems must conform to.
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Last year, the CCP initiated a wave of legislation aimed at its tech sector.
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In late 2019, China began requiring all citizens to submit to facial recognition in order to apply for new internet or mobile services, and began requiring that telecom companies deploy AI to check the identities of people registering SIM cards.
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We have failed—and we are continuing to fail—to see China as a military, economic, and diplomatic threat when it comes to AI.
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Last year, we saw the proliferation of large AI models—but supersized models are on the horizon.
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Deep neural nets are good at identifying objects in photos and videos and processing natural language, but until recently models had to be trained separately.
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Most large language models have been trained on publicly available datasets such as Reddit and Wikipedia.
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Code is important for reproducibility, accountability, and transparency, and it is a key to driving improvements in the greater AI community.
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It costs a lot to train a model.
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The General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark is a collection of resources for training, evaluating, and analyzing natural language understanding systems.
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Training robots to do more than one thing is difficult, but a new model pits identical robot arms against one another in a game (moving objects on a virtual table in specific ways) in which one robot challenges the other with increasingly difficult tasks.
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Algorithms are simply rules that define and automate the treatment of data.
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An AI model can summarize scientific literature, including research about itself.
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For many years, demand for AI talent has outpaced supply.
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Companies are looking to upskill their workforce in machine learning and the basics of AI.
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The brain drain of AI researchers out of academia and into corporations is growing at an alarming pace.
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AI labs are located around the world, with concentrations in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Recognition systems can now be deployed to watch people being interviewed and to gauge enthusiasm, tenacity, and poise.
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While there has been widespread outcry over using facial recognition systems, U.S.-based consumers are likely to be seen by more of them in the coming years.
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In the U.S., there is no federal law protecting consumer privacy as there is in the EU.
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As much as the AI ecosystem booms, a rush of acquisitions means consolidation, too.
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As AI systems improve, some researchers are insisting on guardrails to ensure that AI is deployed in ways that do not harm humanity.
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On Dec. 2, 2020, Timnit Gebru, the colead of Google’s ethical AI team, posted a tweet saying she’d been fired.
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It’s no secret AI has a serious and multifaceted bias problem.
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Humans can easily be tricked into believing machine-generated faces, especially when they’ve been engineered to elicit trust.
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For the past decade, research teams have come under fire for using problematic datasets to train their models.
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There is no question that machine learning systems, trained correctly can help find missing children and detect abuse.
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Computers do exactly what they are told to do.
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Only a few of the numerous AI-related accidents in 2018 and 2019 made headlines.
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We will soon reach a point when we will no longer be able to tell if a dataset has been tampered with, either intentionally or accidentally.
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Just as each person has a unique set of face characteristics, our voices also contain various measurable characteristics that can identify us.
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Our heartbeats, just like other biometric identifiers, are unique, and some scientists think they could be better identifiers than a fingerprint.
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Even the way people walk can be analyzed like a fingerprint.
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Our devices don’t just know who we are—they also know how we’re feeling.
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Numerous academic studies have used Twitter and Facebook as sandboxes for computational personality-recognition experiments.
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In 2018, the U.S. Air Force applied for a patent that explains how wideband radar can be used to identify people by their bone structure.
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Powerful AI systems now automatically recognize animated characters.
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Automatic voice transcription serves many practical applications: recording meeting minutes, taking lecture notes, generating transcripts for podcasts and shows, and serving medical and pharmacological teams as they work with patients.
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If they have a large enough body of recorded speech to learn from, machine learning algorithms can be used to essentially clone a voice, so that its speech is indistinguishable from the original.
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Computational photography is the convergence of computer vision, computer graphics, the internet, and photography.
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The popularity of consumer DNA testing may help people learn more about their ancestry, but it’s also making it easier to recognize people without their permission or knowledge.
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Industrial food processing plants already use computer vision to detect anomalies in products as they move down conveyor belts, but advanced AI systems can now detect problems with very little training.
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Emerging gesture recognition systems, or natural user interfaces (NUIs), will be an important future component of many different technologies.
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Researchers at Sungkyunkwan University and Hanyang University in South Korea have developed an artificial neural tactile skin system akin to the tactile recognition process of humans.
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Sound waves generate unique sound signatures as they pass through physical objects.
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Instead of GPS coordinates, some offices and schools have deployed Bluetooth beacons and wireless access points to track people as they move.
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Real-world conversation is full of nuance: We use words and emphasis in unique ways, we interrupt each other, and sometimes we need others to help us express what we’re thinking.
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Affective computing is an interdisciplinary field spanning computer science, psychology, neurobiology, and cognitive science, and it intersects directly with AI.
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The process of fooling facial recognition algorithms can take different forms: occlusion, confusion, or oversaturating a system with a multitude of false faces or inputs.
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As facial recognition becomes ubiquitous, various groups want to limit the technology’s effectiveness in order to protect privacy.
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In September 2020, King County, Washington became the first county in the United States to ban the private use of facial recognition, while San Francisco had previously banned its use by local agencies and law enforcement on a city level.
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In January 2020, police falsely arrested a Michigan man in front of his wife and daughters because of an incorrect facial recognition match.
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Scoring systems are leaving an indelible mark on all individuals.
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Quantifying and analyzing our biometric data can reveal patterns in our activities and a lot about who we are, what we’re thinking, and what we will likely do next.
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Scoring systems have helped health care institutions predict which COVID-19 patients would require invasive mechanical ventilation.
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There are roughly 4 million to 5 million genomic variants in an individual’s genome.
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Hundreds of companies now score customers and even their own employees.
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In the wake of privacy concerns, some developers are building products that recognize and quantify people without revealing individual identities.
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China’s Corporate Social Credit System (CSCS) is intended to be a standardized reputation-based system to create what the Communist Party of China calls a “fair, transparent, and predictable” business environment.
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The tech giants are building comprehensive systems intended to optimize our daily lives, and those scoring systems have appeal beyond their original use cases.
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Unlike the three major credit agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion), which produce scores that typically fall within roughly the same range, the systems that generate scores in the datascape each use different inputs and methodologies to arrive at their answers.
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AI-powered recognition tools have well-documented blind spots.
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Computers can make decisions faster than humans, but at what potential cost?
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There is no single set of standards nor a unified code of norms for scoring in the United States.
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New tools track our online movements and behaviors more covertly than in the past, with the justification that this provides a more seamless user experience.
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China’s Social Credit System, first announced in 2014, is a vast ranking system that has begun to be rolled out.
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In late 2019, a leak of highly classified government documents revealed an operations manual for detention camps in the far western region of Xinjiang, where scoring is used for predictive policing.
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Data collection has accelerated with the proliferation of new devices and interfaces.
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The rise of remote work during the pandemic accelerated the surveillance of workers.
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Amazon employees started an anti-surveillance petition in 2020 with a singular message: “Stop spying on us.”
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During the pandemic, many students were issued laptops and other devices by schools to facilitate remote learning.
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During the pandemic, researchers at Penn State used fiber optics to surveil the campus from below the surface.
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Drones are used in a variety of settings for surveillance.
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Electronic entry to homes and vehicles has become standard.
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Consumers are frequently turning to apps to get help with mental health, monitor chronic disease, and track health details, but they frequently don’t realize that their personal health information is being shared outside of the apps.
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California recently enacted the Genetic Information Privacy Act, which introduces data restrictions on direct-to-consumer (D2C) genetic testing companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.
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While many messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram offer end-to-end encryption, that doesn’t guarantee privacy.
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5G was supposed to make our cellular systems safer, but many carriers rolled out networks that relied on existing 4G infrastructure as a stopgap measure until a stand-alone 5G core could be built.
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Differential privacy is a statistical method that intentionally introduces errors in data to obscure individual identities of participants in the dataset.
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The quantum era is expected to bring breakthroughs in molecular discovery, artificial intelligence, and prediction models for financial markets and weather, but these same capabilities are what will enable it to break our current encryption mechanisms in seconds.
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Many U.S. state agencies sell personal data.
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Crowdsleuthing is the practice of internet users banding together to solve mysteries and crimes.
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Because our connected devices are continuously monitoring us, they are perfect witnesses to testify to our activities and locations.
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More U.S. states are taking steps to protect consumer privacy rather than wait for federal legislation.
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Many social movements worldwide encourage the leaking of sensitive information to counter corruption and malfeasance, but there is less agreement about what data should be published and who should make those choices.
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China collects massive amounts of data— on its own citizens and others around the world.
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Online experiences are beginning to take place in virtual 3D environments that emulate those in the real world, from households and workplaces to event venues and retail shops.
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Though the metaverse is arguably infinite, shared spaces within it have finite boundaries and emulate traditional cities and towns.
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Avatars are virtual representations of users in digital platforms.
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Avatars can be created in a variety of forms, but as users spend more time in XR and metaverse platforms virtually carrying out everyday tasks and interactions, there will be rising demand for avatars that can convincingly recreate their true human likeness.
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In the absence of standardized universal avatars, users of digital platforms are free to—and in many cases required to— create multiple online versions of themselves, each tailored to the virtual context it inhabits.
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Virtual environments are evolving, and users are increasingly interested in acquiring digital possessions as investments and to enhance their profiles and experiences in the metaverse.
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Cybercrime, estimated to have led to the loss of trillions of dollars in 2021 alone, is expected to spread and evolve as web- and app-based digital interfaces transition to immersive virtual experiences in the metaverse, exposing new vulnerabilities.
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Criminal investigations are evolving with the help of augmented and virtual reality tools, allowing analysts to re-create and explore destroyed or compromised crime scenes.
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Resembling traditional glasses, but equipped with audio technology, cameras, and eventually smart lenses capable of displaying complex, dynamic visuals to the viewer, smart eyewear is poised to supplant the smartphone as the predominant personal device.
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Smart contact lenses, embedded with sensors and electronic components, can display text and images.
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As smart glasses proliferate and AR becomes commonplace over the next decade, diminished reality (DR) presents an opportunity to virtually mask, reduce, or suppress features of one’s environment, rather than simply build on top of it.
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From factory floors to virtual meeting rooms, AR has a broad range of business applications, fueling accelerated investment and growth in the field, and the development of workspaces in XR and the metaverse.
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A pivotal technology for developing XR experiences and environments in the metaverse that emulate real spaces, volumetric video is the capture of a space, figure, or event in 3D.
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Just like volumetric video gives perspective and depth to visual content, spatial audio is broadcast in such a way that the listener interprets the sounds as occupying various spaces in their environment.
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Spatial displays offer the magic of virtual reality without having to strap on a head-mounted display.
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Head-mounted displays (HMDs), which offer more robust functionality than smart glasses but are too cumbersome and restrictive for casual use on the go, are more commonly used in controlled workplace environments or for mostly stationary entertainment and gaming.
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Holograms are light field recordings that, when reproduced, can appear as static or dynamic three-dimensional visuals.
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Though still in the R&D stage, holographic data storage is a promising potential technology for storing data in the volume of the recording medium, rather than on the surface, as in optical and magnetic data storage.
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AR cloud technology seeks to populate the physical world with shared digital elements that can be viewed through devices like smart eyewear.
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The majority of AR and VR experiences available today require users to download an app to their device, but WebAR and WebVR are part of a burgeoning field in which AR and VR experiences are accessible directly through a browser.
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If physical buttons and screens become a thing of the past, how will we control and communicate with our devices and the virtual world around us?
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Since the rise of the smartphone in the late 2000s, it has cemented itself as the predominant personal device, and a defining technological touchstone of the last decade and a half.
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Synthetic media consists of algorithmically generated digital content, including audio, video, deepfakes, virtual characters and environments, and more.
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Also known as “synthetic speech” or “text-to-speech technology,” speech synthesis mimics real human voices and deploys them to various interfaces.
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Generative algorithms are creating synthetic voices that sound just like the original, and those voices can be modulated to the exact pitch and tone desired.
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In the imaginary universe of “Harry Potter,” the halls of Hogwarts are hung with framed portraits of past wizards that can move and speak with living observers.
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Extended reality is blending the physical and digital realms, transforming real-world spaces into interactive environments.
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Companies, agencies, and organizations are now mapping the real world to generate synthetic digital twins.
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With the spread of AI-generated media, a new crop of synthetic celebrities has emerged.
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From Michael Keaton in “Multiplicity” to Tom Hardy in “Legend,” Hollywood has already experimented with multiple iterations of the same actor appearing on screen simultaneously, but with synthetic media, the possibilities are endless.
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So where do you go if you want to use a synthetic avatar or character but don’t know how to build one yourself?
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Despite understandable concern about the effects of deepfakes and synthetic media “in the wild,” the technology has potentially beneficial applications, particularly in the classroom and workplace.
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According to research company Sensity AI, approximately 90%–95% of all deepfake videos fall into a particularly dubious category: nonconsensual pornography.
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Emerging technology tends to outpace the law, and synthetic media is no exception.
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Among the many legal quandaries emerging around synthetic media, copyright law is a recurring theme.
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With the advent of synthetic media comes the end of the premise that seeing (or hearing) is believing.
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Much of our technologyenabled world leaves behind people with disabilities.
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Significant regulatory changes will be required as more companies adopt permanent WFA policies.
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As employees became accustomed to working from their own living spaces in the COVID-19 era, CISOs raised concerns that insecure and unmonitored home networks could expose companies’ proprietary data, trade secrets, video conversations, and more to hackers or industry rivals.
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Investment in upskilling is increasing as both employers and employees look to platforms to help them maintain relevance.
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With approximately 2 million people creating content full-time, online creators are redefining entrepreneurship.
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As individuals begin to see greater value in virtual items, new technologies are redefining the digital experience of creating, authenticating, acquiring, owning, and investing in art.
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Emerging forms of experiential and virtual art illustrate the formats and technologies that will influence the art world’s adaptation to the metaverse.
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Intellectual property is immaterial by nature, which makes social media and virtual environments in the metaverse breeding grounds for new forms of IP, giving rise to complex legal challenges in protecting the rights and ownership of its creators.
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Neuroenhancement devices claim to make you more productive or boost your mood.
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As genetic testing becomes widely accessible and affordable, startups are claiming that genomic sequencing can determine how to personalize nutrition to optimize weight loss, immune function, and personal health.
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For years grinder biohackers have self-experimented with implanted devices including RFID tags, NFC chips, data storage, and biosensors.
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The global cannabis market is expected to reach $70.6 billion by 2028, according to Grand View Research.
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Psychedelics are a small but fast-growing market with some estimates valuing it at $7 billion by 2027.
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Digital fashion is booming, with the market for gaming avatar skins alone expected to hit $50 billion in 2022.
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Tens of billions of clothing items are produced each year, much of it designed for short-term use and ultimately destined for landfills.
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Digital makeup exists at the intersection of facial recognition, 3D mapping, and augmented reality.
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More than 175 colleges and universities have started varsity eSports programs, and eSports training academies are proliferating across the globe.
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Subscription models for gaming began to emerge in 2017.
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The most popular video games today have something in common with the metaverse: persistence.
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When the pandemic drove populations across the world indoors, many turned to video games to pass the time, while others took up gaming for more practical reasons—to supplement their incomes.
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Connected toys share and receive data to personalize and optimize interactive experiences.
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Digital products are built to drive user engagement with habit-forming features that keep users scrolling, but research warns of the negative implications for mental health and well-being.
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In a world where differences in performance are measured in tiny increments, athletes and teams are looking to technology to gain a competitive edge.
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Parents are looking for ways to make screen time healthier and more productive for children, and that means using games to encourage more physical activity and movement along with using gamification to teach skills like coding.
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Connected toys and games require data to work properly, and privacy experts are concerned about how children’s data are being collected, used, and safeguarded.
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Computer-directed reporting applies natural language processing (NLP) algorithms and artificial intelligence to automate many common tasks like curating a homepage and writing basic news stories.
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While most news organizations today treat metaverse platforms as part of the gaming beat, we’re seeing signals that those spaces will be used to reach voters and organize political action.
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Journalists and activists have a heightened risk profile in the digital world.
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Searching for information is increasingly flexible, with advances in voice interfaces allowing consumers to speak their search while image recognition algorithms let users search with their camera.
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Digital subscriptions create new opportunities for media companies looking to find their niche.
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Trust in all media has been falling globally since 2018, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer.
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Low-cost tools to produce newsletters, podcasts, and niche experiences are enabling individuals to create personal media brands.
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The First Amendment offers broad protections for what individuals and companies in the United States can do, leaving plenty of room for debate about what they should do.
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Digital frailty is the collective vulnerability we face from failing to consider the longterm consequences of losing digital archives to technical glitches, evolving file systems, or intentional design.
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Sensory journalism is news delivered through emerging devices like smart glasses or headphones that directly integrate with a user’s senses.
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Thanks to technology, more information is available today than at any point in human history.
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If you want to solve a problem, follow the money.
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Measuring how consumers allocate their attention depends on how you count—and who is counting.
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News organizations need specialized reporters with the technical skills to understand how technology operates in the world—and to explain it to a nontechnical audience.
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Consolidation continues in legacy and digital media ownership.
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Social media has created supercharged cycles of outrage, boycott, and backlash.
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We’re seeing increasing evidence that a user’s physical location governs how much they can participate in a digital world.
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News organizations are increasingly realizing that their core value proposition doesn’t live in 750-word blocks of text.
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Once limited to pharmaceutical companies, hospitals systems, and insurance providers, chief health officers and chief medical officers are getting recruited to all sorts of companies that need the role to guide decisions during the global health crisis.
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Breakthroughs in sensors and artificial intelligence are expanding the possibilities for remote diagnosis.
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Technology is bringing the power of the laboratory into our homes.
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Telemedicine took off during the pandemic, but emergency orders that expanded access are expiring, leaving many patients without access to their out-of-state providers.
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Membership-based services and health tech startups are creating new models that better fit the needs and lifestyles of younger, digitally savvy generations.
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Big Tech is doubling down on its bet to disrupt the health care industry, while also reorganizing and shifting strategies.
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The FDA cleared the first video game as a prescription medical treatment for attention deficit disorder in 2020, and many expected other prescription games to follow.
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Medical misinformation and disinformation aren’t new, but the pandemic dramatically deepened the problem—so much so that state medical boards are stepping in to halt the spread of misstatements from physicians.
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From treatment of mental disorders to pain management, virtual reality is gaining traction in medicine.
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In the first eight months of 2021, investors put $300 million behind startups focused on brain-machine interfaces (BMI) or brain-computer interfaces (BCI)—triple the amount raised in 2019.
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With the proliferation of wearables and sensor technology comes a flood of patient data that can help health care providers assess a person’s overall health.
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Automatic medical transcription continued to gain traction as telemedicine accelerated during the pandemic.
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The pandemic accelerated use of remote patient monitoring (RPM), as health systems used it to reduce demand for hospital beds and remotely monitor COVID-19 patients at risk for developing severe disease.
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Digital fitness companies like Peloton experienced 400% to 500% growth in 2020 but that growth has significantly slowed.
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Brain training is a controversial multibillion-dollar industry.
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Several 2020 studies found that wearables, such as the Oura Ring, Fitbit, and Apple Watch, can detect early signs of infections.
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Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada are using computer vision and deep learning to create more natural movement for disabled exoskeleton wearers.
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China’s Southeast University developed a material that can respond to pressure or stretching, through liquid metal circuits and liquid crystal elastomers.
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The University of Texas at Austin is exploring how graphene electronic tattoos can measure brain waves, heart activity, and muscle activity through biopotentials.
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Ohio State University scientists developed software that can design more complex DNA robots and nanodevices in minutes, instead of days.
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MIT researchers created a washable fiber that can sense, store, and process data.
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Smart clothing uses smart threads and small sensors to capture various physiological data.
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Wireless body area networks provide continuous monitoring of patients, diagnostics, and early warning signs of problems.
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Harvard University and MIT developed a face mask that can detect the SARS- CoV-2 virus.
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Manufacturing and military settings are using wearable robots called exoskeletons to reduce fatigue and risk of injury.
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In April 2021, Sony introduced a more powerful wearable air conditioner called the Reon Pocket 2, available for sale only in Japan.
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Skinput uses human skin as an interface and effectively turns an arm and hand into an input device.
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Smartwatches are monitoring more than heart rates, by providing blood pressure and temperature observations, and they’re starting to draw conclusions about health status.
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Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Artificial Intelligence created an open-source toolkit that lets users design and fabricate health-sensing devices like bracelets that detect distracted driving or bands that provide important data during physical therapy like muscle motion, strain, and tension.
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As many as 397 million hearables will be shipped by 2024, according to International Data Corp. forecasts.
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Hype around smart glasses continued through 2021, from the launch of Xiaomi Smart Glasses to Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories to anticipation of smart glasses from Apple.
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Virtual reality is commonly experienced through wearable headsets, but the next generation of the technology will collect personal information and biometric data, including movement, pupil dilation, and heart rate to personalize simulated environments in real time.
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Austria’s Tec-Innovation and Graz University of Technology created smart shoes with embedded sensors that alert people who are blind or visually impaired about obstacles in their path, using vibration feedback or an audible warning sent to a smartphone.
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Personal protective equipment manufacturer Mechanix Wear and thermal wearables technology company Clim8 created a smart glove that self-regulates temperature to keep hands comfortable.
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Platforms are increasingly servicing entire households, rather than just one person.
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Platforms provide the brains that power smart devices, but few devices work across platforms, resulting in homes that must be exclusively centered around either Google products, Apple products, or Amazon products.
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Robots perform repetitive tasks around the home that humans can’t—or won’t do.
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Robots capable of sterilizing and disinfecting, once used only in hospitals, are making their way into our offices and homes.
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The latest smart fitness devices bring the best of the gym right into your home.
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Smart kitchens are moving beyond apps to control appliances.
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Adaptable surfaces are being developed to bridge the gap between physical and digital interactions, and to bring new utility to familiar devices.
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New technologies promise to optimize sleep, even in challenging circumstances.
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Companies are under pressure to curb their CO2 emissions.
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As smart home devices become more ubiquitous and affordable, consumers need to retrofit old homes with new technologies.
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Appliance manufacturers build products with intentionally limited life spans, forcing consumers to use their own costly repair services or continually buy new products.
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The Home of Things (HoT) has created a broad attack surface for our homes.
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The global pandemic accelerated digital transformation.
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Digital identity systems authenticate citizens and enable them to interact with their government and its private sector partners.
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Public agencies are pooling and standardizing data, making it interoperable and reusable across government departments and the private sector.
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A digital dividend would give citizens a cut of the profits derived from their personal data.
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Proof of a COVID-19 vaccine is increasingly required to cross borders, enter public buildings, and dine in restaurants.
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Facing lingering pandemic impacts, new threats posed by climate change, and a shift in geopolitical tensions, governments are investing once again in basic research.
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Parts of the federal government rely on comically old technology that is very difficult to maintain.
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The federal government is developing plans for permanent hybrid work from home policies, which will allow employees to split their time between being in the office and teleworking.
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When tech companies made bold announcements about their shift into decentralized technologies and the metaverse, some cities broke (digital) ground on new infrastructure and city services.
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For many years creating a network for exchanging specific types of data was something reserved for the highly technical or for large corporations.
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U.S. states are developing charters and special permissions to stimulate blockchain use for digital identification, cryptocurrencies, and digital asset management.
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State governments are developing rules and regulations for data privacy protections.
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State governments are developing new policies for using biometric data, with a special focus on how law enforcement uses it.
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As electric vehicles become more sophisticated, adding semi-autonomous or fullautonomous features, local governments must determine when and how to authorize their use within city limits.
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This could be a seminal year for tech regulation after several years of lawsuits, regulatory fines, and legislative efforts.
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Tech companies, advocacy groups, and governments are grappling with who should own the rights to consumer data and who has the ultimate power and control over private information.
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A handful of companies control the cloud and have the sole ability to set pricing, access, and standards.
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Tech platforms connecting the cloud, our smart homes, and our everyday digital activities aren’t interoperable.
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When a company denies one or more users, businesses, or governments the ability to access its platform or services, this is an example of a CDoS, a corporate denial-ofservice.
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Large companies have always lobbied to influence policy and regulation.
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Technology shapes the ways the countries relate to one another, and it influences the global balance of power.
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The founding promise of the digital world was broad connectivity where information could flow freely.
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Throughout history, multilateral efforts have resulted in nations working together to promote shared purposes.
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Effective COVID-19 vaccines exist, but capacity is still meeting only a fraction of the global demand.
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As we enter a new era of space exploration, geopolitical alliances are being formed to propel commercial development—and to develop new military capabilities.
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New technologies promise to stabilize climate change, but they could damage international relations.
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As neurotech moves from labs into trials, some countries are banning the collection and sale of brain data.
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The Chinese government is cracking down on its largest tech companies, citing anticompetitive behavior and regulatory infractions.
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Cyber sovereignty refers to a government exerting control over how the internet is run, who gets access to it, and what can be done with all of the data generated.
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With the global pandemic forcing fast coordination by government agencies, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies, vaccine and patient data became a new target for cyberattacks.
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As more consumers send their saliva away for genetic testing, the need for secure DNA databases has never been as important.
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The first known death resulting from a cyberattack happened in 2020.
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Cybersecurity has its own supply chain, which includes IT services, vendors, software, networks, and data.
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A zero-day vulnerability is a flaw—a problem within a hardware or software system that developers didn’t discover during the testing process.
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With all the hacking scandals that have plagued us in the past several years, we will see a transition to something called zero-knowledge proofs, which allow one party to verify data without conveying any additional information.
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For the past few years, some social media users left big platforms for nascent startups that were established quickly and with little technical oversight.
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In late 2018, more than 50 countries signed an international agreement on cybersecurity principles.
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While they sound malicious, backdoors aren’t necessarily bad.
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As our technology becomes more immersive, we’ll have increased needs for remote kill switches.
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Thanks to advancements in AI, one of the big trends in security is automated hacking—in short, software that’s built to out-hack the human hackers.
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It’s thought that the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack was likely planned and facilitated by an elite Russian government agency, while Russian hackers targeted more than 20 U.S. states’ voter registration databases leading up to the 2018 elections.
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Every year, cybercriminals target critical infrastructure and facilities, and for years, security experts have warned that hackers could potentially disable dams, power plants, and traffic lights with these attacks.
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Rather than simply pursuing cyber deterrence, governments are more actively engaging offensive positions in cyberwarfare.
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With so many people now working from home and using their own routers, home computers, and internet service providers, hackers are finding it easier to breach company data.
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With the proliferation of smart devices—connected speakers, mirrors, and fitness gadgets—hackers have a wellspring of new targets in 2022.
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Machine learning is being used to recognize and regenerate sounds, including the sound of someone inserting a key into a lock.
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White hat (read: good hacker) bug bounty programs are becoming popular.
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Rather than malicious actors simply stealing data, you can expect to see new kinds of attacks involving hackers accessing and then manipulating data for long-term damage.
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Older malware is being remixed and used for new purposes.
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New forms of insurance, intended to help businesses protect against hackers, will begin to enter the marketplace.
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A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack happens when a hacker sends so many requests to a battalion of machines that the entire network goes down.
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The protocols underpinning the web were written long before we had connected microwaves and billions of daily users.
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Last year, ransomware devastated companies and even entire cities.
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Hackers-turned-activists have had a busy few years, working for causes they believe in.
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Many people confuse the deep web— hidden parts of the internet that aren’t usually indexed by search engines— with darknets, which are niche spaces promising anonymity, often for illegal activities.
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Cloud robotics and automation are enabling the rapid scaling of robotic applications, allowing developers to test and learn, simulate, and share code in an efficient platform.
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Collaborative robots—or cobots—have been in use across various industrial settings for years.
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Autonomous robot swarms are coordinated and distributed to perform complex tasks with the benefit of herd dynamics.
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Early attempts at selfassembling robots mostly focused on self-reconfiguring modular robots, but new approaches are taking the capability a few steps further.
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Robot compilers help non-engineers to conceptualize and fabricate robotic solutions, and soon they’ll offer efficiencies, cost savings, and increased productivity for every industry.
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Smart dust, also known as microelectromechanical systems or MEMS, represents a new method of atomic-level materials engineering.
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A number of companies now offer quadrupedal robots, including Boston Dynamics, Ghost Robotics, and ANYbotics.
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Current robots designed for off-planet exploration have wheels.
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During the pandemic, robots became essential workers.
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As robots are leveraged in an increasing number of settings, questions around their treatment and rights have naturally arisen.
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The pandemic exposed the fragility of our global supply chain.
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Tracking and verifying provenance in supply chains is becoming a critical component for supply chain operations.
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Regulations and shifting market expectations are pushing companies to improve sustainability of their supply chains.
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Sustainability commitments by governments, combined with emerging customer expectations, are driving growth of startups and investment by brands in the area.
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From groceries to vaccines and gene therapies, the cold chain is becoming a larger part of our everyday supply chain.
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Once constrained to simple polymers, additive manufacturing (AM)—or 3D printing— has expanded to use metal, ceramics, and biological materials.
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The industrial internet of things (IIoT) deploys sensors that monitor the conditions of industrial machines and systems.
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Rising inflation and labor challenges are accelerating adoption of automation.
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The global drone market continues to see unprecedented rise, and is expected to grow from a $15 billion market in 2020 to more than $90 billion by 2030, bolstered by its wide-ranging applications in defense, public safety, agriculture, weather monitoring, and enterprises.
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Drone swarms, or fleets of networked drones capable of coordinated operations and communication, are expanding the capabilities of a single operator.
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New significant milestones have been met and funding has increased in the area of drone fleet deliveries.
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As applications for drones become more pervasive, aviation guidelines and regulations for operating these vehicles will become increasingly necessary.
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While vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft may only result in the transportation of small groups of individuals over short distances, the positive impacts on traffic congestion, civic design, and city planning are paramount.
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“Follow-me” functionality allows a drone to detect and pursue a moving subject, and has myriad applications ranging from photography and videography to security and safety.
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As natural disasters and extreme weather become more common, drones will not only provide more insight and advanced detection of destructive weather events but also help with the rapid inspection and analysis of critical infrastructure.
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Car manufacturers are racing ahead to develop proactive safety functions and semiautonomous capabilities to satisfy both consumer and regulator demands.
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During the pandemic, the desire for quick and contactless deliveries steadily rose, and there is little reason to think this desire will change.
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Autonomous, AI-powered ships are moving from concepts to reality as two separate companies have completed successful maiden voyages of their respective autonomous technology.
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Vehicle manufacturers are expanding their definition of safety to include protection from the elements whenever we are in or around a vehicle.
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Battery-powered transportation now extends beyond cars, trucks, and buses to motorized bicycles, hoverboards, skateboards, and scooters.
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Accelerating adoption of battery-powered transportation is leading to a rethink of how we provide the energy required to transport people and goods from A to B. How will our energy delivery systems need to adapt to a more battery-powered and less gasolinepowered transportation ecosystem?
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Platforms are building operating systems for smart cockpits, initially using the phone as an interface.
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The concept of transportation-asa-service is gaining popularity as more companies use platform business models like ride-sharing to provide transportation without customers having to pay large upfront costs like when they buy a car or scooter.
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More data usually results in better algorithm performance, and the size of the data for training autonomous cars is accelerating at an exponential rate.
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The legislation around how, where, and under what conditions autonomous vehicles can be tested has yet to be set at a national level.
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Historically mechanical systems are increasingly built in an electriconly format without a fallback strategy if they fail.
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China produces more cars than any other country in the world.
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The importance placed on roads is decreasing in urban planning with autonomous vehicles, sustainability, and technology leading the charge for how urban spaces are being designed.
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Airplane travel accounts for 2.5% of global carbon dioxide emissions, and efforts are underway to decarbonize travel.
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The governments and companies that lead international infrastructure projects have powerful influence on setting regional, global and geopolitical standards.
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While most people are familiar with Bitcoin, another category of cryptocurrency— stablecoins—is the most widely used.
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Community currencies, also known as scrips, have allowed cities, towns, and even neighborhoods to experiment with their own monetary policies for centuries.
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While digital payment rails have exploded in popularity in recent years, the majority of innovation has occurred in the private sector.
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Tech companies are leveraging APIs and digital infrastructure to provide seamless, interconnected financial services.
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International aid often comes with conditions for the recipient’s behavior such as how the funds are used, and so do the funds parents give to children.
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The bimonthly paycheck may soon be a thing of the past.
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Open banking enables secure interoperability between third-party organizations and financial institutions, allowing for the creation of tools, products, and platforms that pull together data from various financial institutions into one location.
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Banks and insurance companies are using artificial intelligence, telematics, and big data to automate credit risk modeling and update the way credit scores are calculated.
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Blockchain-based applications are being used to track the origins of content online and permanently store original assets, improving the ability of consumers and businesses to authenticate information.
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Token-based business models are developed when a company or entity issues a token that represents usage, utility, value, or a combination of the three.
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Fractional ownership is reemerging as blockchain and digital platforms unlock new ways to purchase and own assets.
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Decentralized applications and autonomous communities give individuals more control but also require more engagement and understanding to realize their full benefits.
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Sports, movies, and music all derive value based in part on the size and strength of their fanbase.
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Large computer problems can be broken down into smaller portions and solved using processing power of multiple standard computers, rather than with centralized supercomputers.
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Much of the internet relies on FOSS, free opensource software.
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Digital wallets securely store payment information on mobile devices, browsers, and even wearables.
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Individuals are earning digital currencies by learning how these currencies work.
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Cryptocurrency developers have created software to decentralize the stocks and securities exchange process, allowing individuals to trade directly with one another without relying on a centralized third party to determine prices and settle the trades.
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Since many digital currencies require a public ledger of all transactions in order to operate, all activity in the network is visible to the public, offering zero financial privacy.
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Staking allows you to earn rewards based on the cryptocurrencies you hold.
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Price indexes, stock markets, and other economic indicators are used to determine the health and wellness of economic activity.
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Blockchains enable digital tokens that are provably unique and scarce.
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Blockchain networks offer new ways to track ownership, licensing, and royalties through smart contracts, or selfexecuting agreements with terms directly written into lines of code.
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Internet memes are viral images that spread across the web.
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One characteristic of blockchains is the permanent history of transactions broadcasted on a public ledger.
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Crypto mining provides security to the Bitcoin network by rewarding computers for validating transactions, but it’s widely criticized for being energy-intensive.
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Governments have reams of information that would benefit their citizens if only it was easier to access and understand.
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5G is the fifth generation mobile network and a global wireless standard.
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Spectrum for private use will be available in 2022, enabling owners to build private 5G networks for organizations.
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6G will be the sixth generation of wide-area wireless technology, following the transition to 5G.
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Latency, or the amount of time it takes for data to be transmitted from one place to another, currently ranges from about 15 to 44 milliseconds, depending on whether you are using fixed broadband or satellite internet.
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Cloud advancements have unlocked an emerging network operating model that no longer requires organizations to build, own, or maintain their own infrastructure.
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What if networks could automatically diagnose and heal themselves?
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Amazon, SpaceX, and others are developing satellite technology that would beam internet services directly to the enterprise and consumer devices, and in the process bypass internet service providers.
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A mesh network is a group of devices within close proximity that enables fast and efficient data routing.
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Few companies house all of their data, equipment, and IT infrastructure under one roof.
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A decade ago, Google was working on indoor positioning systems—like a GPS, but for buildings—in order to help users navigate the great indoors.
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The three biggest cloud providers in the U.S.—Microsoft, Amazon, and Google—have collectively invested tens of billions of dollars building infrastructure: data centers, monitoring systems, and software.
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Edge computing performs computations near or at the source of data.
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Within the next decade, there could be as many as 50 billion devices online generating enormous amounts of data.
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As ubiquitous computing expands, pulling data from countless connected devices, the opportunity to conduct artificial intelligence–based analysis at the edge is becoming more apparent.
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As data and applications increasingly live on devices, new methods will be required to manage the data in an effective way.
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Nearly every major tech player now has a presence in edge computing.
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Today, most data on the edge is ultimately stored in content distribution networks (CDNs), which store the data in a more localized data center that is closer to the user.
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Quantum computing uses properties of quantum physics— superposition and quantum entanglement— to perform computations and tasks at a much faster speed than is possible with classical computers.
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It sounds simple enough: The quantum internet is the network connecting quantum connections between quantum devices.
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Last year, researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China used a quantum algorithm to design an improved quantum bit.
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Last July, Google’s Sycamore processor detected and fixed computational errors.
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The global quantum computing race is well underway.
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Quantum computing poses a serious risk to current cryptography standards, as they are able to solve much more complex problems than what classical computers can tackle today.
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In late 2020, physicists at the University of Science and Technology of China announced that they had developed a photonic quantum computer named Jiuzhang, a photonic quantum computer through which up to 76 photons were detected.
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Synthetic biology is a relatively new interdisciplinary field of science that combines engineering, design, and computer science with biology.
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Synthesis transforms digital genetic code into molecular DNA, allowing scientists to design and mass-produce genetic material.
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The first human genome cost roughly $2.7 billion and took 13 years to complete.
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The Human Genome Project-read (HGP-read)—an initiative to sequence the human genome and improve the technology and costs associated with sequencing DNA—wrapped up in 2004 and left about 8% of our DNA unexplored.
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Scientists now use synthetic biology to discover and produce molecules on demand.
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Synthetic biology is an emerging field that builds new life: replacement organs and soft tissue, as well as entirely new kinds of organisms never before seen on Earth.
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Antibiotic resistance is on the rise, due to overuse or incorrect application.
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A number of trials will test emerging CRISPR therapies in 2022.
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In addition to making edits, CRISPR also allows the fast detection of pathogens by identifying sequences in their DNA or RNA.
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Scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have discovered a new class of programmable DNA modifying systems called OMEGAs (Obligate Mobile Element Guided Activity), which could move small bits of DNA throughout bacterial genomes.
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A gene-editing technique, which scientists call prime editing, could make the process much more precise and result in more accurate modifications.
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When the gene-editing process results in a damaged DNA helix, you have what synthetic biologist George Church calls gene vandalism.
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Scientists are in the process of building biological circuits, made of synthetic DNA, and the software that operates them.
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Lab-grown lung and brain tissues are being used to research the lasting effects of SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 virus.
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The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is leading a $24 million federally funded project to develop a “body on a chip,” which will include different combinations of organoids.
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Researchers in South Korea developed an artificial nervous system that can simulate a conscious response to external stimuli.
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In 2010, scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced an astonishing discovery: They could destroy the DNA of an organism called Mycoplasma capricolum and replace it with DNA they had written on a computer that was based on a similar bacterium, Mycoplasma mycoides.
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In 2018, scientists from Microsoft Research and the University of Washington achieved a new milestone: They discovered how to create random access memory on DNA at scale.
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Early in the pandemic, a team at the University of Bern in Switzerland published the code for a synthetic SARS- CoV-2 virus.
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In 2020, a cluster of stem cells from an African clawed frog served as the base for a fortuitous experiment involving a supercomputer, a virtual environment, and evolutionary algorithms.
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Molecular robotics will someday be used on all life-forms to provide targeted therapies as well as genetic augmentation.
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Scientists at the University of California, San Diego discovered a technique for creating cells that could send protein signals to other cells and trigger behavior—mimicking what biological cells do on their own.
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As genetic material that contains instructions for making proteins, messenger RNA is revolutionizing vaccine development.
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New genetic screening techniques that test embryos before implantation are making their way into fertility centers.
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In an experiment at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, researchers successfully printed and implanted synthetic ovaries in mice that resulted in a successful pregnancy.
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As we age, the sequence might stay constant, but chemical changes do occur to our DNA.
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Researchers are developing a new technique that might someday enable people to upgrade their children before birth.
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Late in 2020, Singapore approved a local competitor to the slaughterhouse by allowing a bioreactor—a high-tech vat for growing organisms—run by a U.S. company to produce cultured chicken nuggets for its residents.
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Two California companies are offering innovative products: The Every Co. (formerly Clara Foods) serves creamy, lab-grown eggs, fish that never swam in water, and cow’s milk brewed from yeast.
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Food technologists can use genome sequencing and gene editing as part of a precision fermentation process, which results in microbes engineered for specific purposes.
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Several companies are developing biobased, ultra-durable hard biofilms and coatings so that chipped nails, scratched paint, and cracked screens become yesterday’s problem.
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Smart packaging will drive agricultural advances and investment.
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Carbon dioxide is the undisputed culprit when it comes to climate change.
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An artificial leaf developed at Harvard harnesses solar energy.
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The textile and clothing industry is a notorious polluter but is making steps toward more sustainable practices.
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In 2017, researchers plunged into the waters off Lizard Island on the northeastern coast of Australia with some unexpected equipment in tow—a set of underwater loudspeakers.
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A mass extinction event is happening right now in our guts and in the environment.
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In May 2021, biotech company Oxitec launched a controversial field test of specially engineered mosquitoes in Florida in a move toward reducing the spread of deadly diseases such as dengue, yellow fever, and the Zika virus.
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Some companies are offering direct-to-consumer DNA testing kits with the promise of recommendations for skin care products and foods—all based on the person’s individual DNA profile.
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When it comes to recreational drugs like marijuana, genetic factors can determine whether someone feels pleasantly relaxed or anxious and listless.
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The human microbiome is a mini-universe of the genetic materials living on and inside of our bodies, inherited from our gestational mothers.
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Biohacking is a socio-technological movement bringing together citizen scientists, academic researchers, technologists, data scientists, and others interested in life sciences.
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Early in the pandemic, a group of citizen scientists began work on their own inoculation using a DIY approach.
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The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated widespread use of infectious disease surveillance techniques, from saliva tests at airports and border crossings, to nasal swabbing at testing centers.
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A dozen countries have banned germ line engineering in humans, though their ranks do not include the United States or China.
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The U.K. Biobank (UKBB) made 200,000 DNA sequences available to scientists for research projects in 2021.
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Fewer than 2% of people who have had their genomes sequenced are from Africa.
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Biological materials from Indigenous peoples are still missing from genetic databases, basic research, and clinical studies.
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One of the fastest-growing datasets in the world comprises human genetic data.
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Genetic privacy will be increasingly difficult to safeguard—yet big genetic datasets are required to perform the kind of research that leads to new therapeutics.
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Researchers are building the first-ever comprehensive map of all 37.2 trillion human cells in the body.
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Over the past decade, China has quietly created a scaled, national DNA drive to collect, sequence, and store its citizens’ genetic data.
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Chinese researchers edited the genes of a human embryo in 2015.
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In 2017 a bioinformatician at KU Leuven in Belgium, Yves Moreau, noticed a red flag in a paper published in a prestigious academic journal.
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In 2019, a major outbreak of swine fever devastated China’s stock and killed nearly a quarter of the global pig population.
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Innovations in AgTech are making it easier to collect and share data, increase crop yields, and implement sustainability measures.
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Farms have specific needs and risks— and growers must deal with high-impact, highly uncertain conditions as the climate crisis worsens.
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Growers work in an extremely low-margin business, making big capital investments risky endeavors.
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We saw more than 50 instances of cyberattacks on the food industry in 2021.
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Growers can easily collect data at every level of their operations through farm management platforms and integrate that data with other service providers, including agronomists, contractors, land owners, farmhands, and other stakeholders.
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Modern farms need low-latency, highspeed broadband to make use of emerging technologies.
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Microsoft launched FarmBeats, a sort of Internet of Things for farms, on its Azure marketplace.
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The barriers to modernizing a farm’s operations—lack of digital savvy and tight margins—are being overcome by new farming-as-a-service startups.
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Precision agriculture promises to increase crop yields and profitability, while reducing the costs of watering, fertilizing, and treating crops for pests.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now crunch data to come up with “plant recipes” to improve indoor food production.
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A decline in bee populations worldwide poses a significant threat to global food production.
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The global supply of seaweed is in decline due to global warming.
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New technologies allow growers to produce plants and insects using alternative techniques, which include aquaponics, hydroponics, and vertical farming.
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Researchers are harnessing synthetic biology to produce better feed for animals.
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CRISPR promises to enhance the nutritional value of produce, increase crop yields, and extend freshness.
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The cost of lab-grown meat still remains expensive.
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In some cultures, people eat bugs as part of their daily diets, but bug-based cuisine isn’t a worldwide phenomenon.
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The Advanced Plant Habitat is a fully automated plant growth facility that was installed in the International Space Station in 2018.
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Terraforming—literally, “earth shaping”—is a concept from science fiction in which people re-form another planet to resemble Earth and support human life.
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As global temperatures continue to rise, some cities will be disproportionately affected.
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As the existential threat of climate change becomes more pronounced, world governments are implementing more regulations around the reduction of carbon emissions.
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Green stimulus plans are government measures to stimulate the economy while promoting clean energy, responding to climate change, encouraging biodiversity, and protecting the environment.
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Direct air capture (DAC) technology pulls carbon dioxide from ambient air and is not required to capture it at the source of production, making this process more versatile than other carbon-capture methods.
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It is becoming easier to understand how ice sheets and sea levels change over time.
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An extreme weather event is one that falls outside the statistical norms of typical fluctuations in weather patterns.
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There’s no official designation for “climate change refugees,” and as more people become displaced worldwide, climate migrants will face added complications.
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We’re living through a strange contradiction: We may seem to be in close contact with an ever-increasing number of wild animals and novel pathogens, but in reality, our planet’s biodiversity has plummeted.
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Rewilding is an integrative approach to environmental conservation and rehabilitation that focuses on the reintroduction of keystone species and the creation of safe corridors by which species can freely migrate.
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Seasteading is a colonization process wherein permanent human dwellings and settlements are constructed at sea.
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Small, individual actions collectively contribute to a global impact on greenhouse gasses, but many consumers lack awareness of their contributions.
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Whether a geological epoch or merely an event, our current time period—the “Anthropocene” (anthro for “man,” and cene for “new”)—is defined by the indelible mark that humans have left on Earth.
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Wind transports dust from the Sahara to the Atlantic, and iron contained in the dust fertilizes the growth of phytoplankton in the ocean.
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Carbon dioxide captured from smokestacks or even just from the air surrounding us can be repurposed to make a vast array of materials.
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Scientists are building tubular bioreactors, filling them with green algae, and letting them eat away at the carbon captured from the environment.
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Humans’ habitual use of single-use plastics became even more pronounced during the COVID-19 pandemic, as people used more consumables and disposable masks.
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The notorious pile of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean is bigger than first estimated.
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Scientists are working on building enormous, mirrored parasols in the stratosphere, with the idea that they would reflect sunlight back into space and theoretically cool the Earth’s atmosphere over time.
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This geoengineering technique, also known as marine cloud brightening, targets low-level clouds over the ocean and makes them more reflective by spraying seawater into the air, thereby injecting particles of salt into the clouds.
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CO2 is the undisputed culprit when it comes to climate change.
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Mycelium is the vegetative part of a fungus, composed of thread-like filaments of tissue known as hyphae.
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As the threat of global warming persists, engineers at Purdue University have manufactured the whitest paint to date.
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Parts of the Middle East and Africa could be uninhabitable by 2050 due to extreme heat.
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Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan sets sustainability targets for sourcing, supply chain, and production throughout its operations.
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Supply chains are inherently challenging when it comes to ensuring sustainability.
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It’s no mystery that the shipping industry is a huge contributor to climate change due to its carbon dioxide emissions and unquenchable thirst for fuel.
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Also known as ionic wind, electric wind is created when charged particles move between electrodes in the air.
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The race to produce a lighter, more efficient battery is more competitive than ever.
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While the promise of break-even fusion power still might be more than a decade away, milestones are making it more palpable.
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Hydrogen is a useful energy source due to its abundance, ubiquity, versatility, and high energy content.
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In many countries, government agencies and private companies distribute energy to citizens via an electric grid that’s made up of a sprawling network of generators and connectors.
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By the decade’s end, increased production of electric vehicles in combination with private and public funding for nationwide charging networks will make the switch to electric vehicles viable for more consumers.
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In many markets around the world, renewable energy is already cheaper than nonrenewable energy.
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In the near future, we will transport clean energy from production sites to demand areas using a new kind of power grid now being tested in China.
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Natural gas can be part of our low-carbon future and might be integral for meeting net-zero carbon futures.
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Modular floating nuclear molten salt reactors provide a safer alternative to traditional nuclear reactors.
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The ability to transfer significant amounts of energy wirelessly may seem far-fetched.
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We already know sweat can be a valuable input for wearable devices to give users real-time health and wellness information.
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Human ambition, the quest for knowledge, and curiosity have always driven the rush to explore space.
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The year 2021 marked a new space race, but rather than being a competition between Cold War adversaries, this one was among some of the world’s wealthiest people.
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In the U.S., only three agencies confer licenses for astronauts: the FAA, the military, and NASA.
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Blue Origin, in partnership with Boeing, Sierra Space, and other companies, is developing Orbital Reef, which will become the first privately owned and operated space station.
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While not technically qualifying as space tourism, SpaceX’s Inspiration4 mission saw a private flight launch four civilians into space.
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The concept of galactic ridesharing dates back to 2018.
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The prospect of conducting mining operations on asteroids and the moon still seems like science fiction to many— and to be sure, its viability isn’t certain.
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As of 2022, there are 72 different space agencies in the world.
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As countries are mired in geopolitical tensions on Earth, these same tensions will follow them to space.
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The U.S. announced the launch of a new Space Force in 2019.
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With the exception of the Outer Space Treaty in 1967, there has been a lack of significant progress relating to rules and regulations for space.
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Space junk is becoming a bigger problem as more satellites are launched into the atmosphere, but groups are emerging to develop solutions for this evolving problem.
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New propulsion systems for rocket engines would use mercury as a fuel, which could run the risk of spreading toxic chemicals through Earth’s atmosphere.
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This year, NASA will launch six small satellites (smallsats) as part of a constellation of smallsats consisting of seven in total.
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The successor of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will operate in a fundamentally new way.
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According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, there are currently more than 4,550 operational satellites in Earth’s orbit, but soon that number could rise substantially.
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Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are working on a concept that could not only help steer satellites back down to Earth when they’re decommissioned but also clean up space clutter in the process.
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Satellites often outlive their expected service lives, but the limited amount of fuel they can carry often leads to the cessation of their services.
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Efforts to colonize space have become more pronounced as both governmental agencies and private organizations have adopted grand ambitions for establishing life beyond Earth.
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NASA’s Perseverance had a Wright brothers experience when the aircraft Ingenuity performed the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.
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With emphasis on colonizing Mars, scientists know that four of the five major consumable resources, including energy, water, oxygen, and construction materials, are potentially abundant on the planet.
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The Overview Effect is the cognitive shift in awareness that astronauts report experiencing after they view Earth from orbit or from the moon.
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From “nootropics” to neuroenhancers, the consumer market for altering our mental state is growing.
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The video game industry has emancipated itself from other entertainment verticals to become the driver of a whole ecosystem of cross-platform franchises and experiences.
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We are seeing incredible growth in wearables, with more than 1,000 wearable sensors on the market—from smartwatches to advanced fabrics and materials.
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Fighting climate change will require a multipronged approach.
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For various reasons, companies of all sizes are leading with sustainability as part of their core values.
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