IT and communications[edit]

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First commercial LTE networks deployed in Sweden December 4G cellular communication 2009; candidate systems LTEadvanced and I EEE 802.16m (Mobil e WiMAX Release 2) in development broadband Pervasive computing Mobile broadband, mobile TV, Interacti ve TV, 3DTV,[80]hologr aphiccamera s[80]

Ambient intelligence Hypothetical

Neurological Artificial brain Research[81] disease's ficial Blue Brain treatments, arti Project

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Progress in Hypothetical, experiments; Artificial intelligence limited uses in specialized domains

] [82][83][84

artificial Human decision, analysis, etc. Creating intelligent devices intelligence,t echnological singularity, a pplications of artificial intelligence

Atomtronics

Hypothetical

Augmented Reality

diffusion

Money Bitcoin Diffusion Central banking supply, World reserve currency

Cryptocurre ncy, Digital currency

Cybermethodology

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Emerging memory technologiesTRAM, ZRAM, TTRAM,CBRA M, SONOS, RRAM,R acetrack memory, NRAM,Milli pede memory Current In development memory technologies

Fourth-generation optical discs(3D optical data storage,Holographic data storage) Research, prototyping[85]

Some mass

Storing and Blu-ray Disc, Optical storage

storagemethod archiving data s/devices, mag previously netic tape data erased for storage, optical economic data storage reasons

Order of General-purpose computing on graphics processing units Diffusion of non CPU for a few standardized methods specialized uses magnitude faster processing ofparallelizable algorithms

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Diffusion of primitive amplifications; working Machine augmented cognition,exocortices prototypes of more; Hypothetical, experiments on more substantial amplification Libraries, scho ols, training, pocket calculators

Human translation of natural languages, in Machine translation Diffusion[86][87] areas where ng is noncritical and language isformalized Easier and cheaper crosscommunication

misunderstandi cultural

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Biometrics, controlling processes (e.g., indriverless car, automated Research, Machine vision prototyping, commercializati on
[81]

Biotic vision and perception, including humans

guided vehicle), detecting

Computer vision,patter n

events (e.g., in recognition,d visual surveilla igital image nce), interaction (e.g., in humancomputer interaction), robot vision processing

Development, Mobile collaboration commercializati on

[88]

Traditional videoconferencing systems

Extends the capabilities of video conferencing for use on

Potentially Emerging technology marginaliz Status ed technologi es hand-held mobile devices in real-time over secure networks. For use in diverse industries such as manufacturing, energy, healthcare.[89] Potential application s Related articles

Hypothetical, experiments; some Optical computing integrated circuits have been developed[90] Many electroni Smaller, faster, lower power consuming computing integrated circuits components of cs devices,

computing, for Quantum computing experiments,[91] Electronic computing, opti some kinds of commercializati cal problems,

Hypothetical,

Atomtronics,

Much faster

Potentially Emerging technology marginaliz Status ed technologi es on[92] computing, qu chemical antum clock modeling, new materials with programmed properties, Hypothetical of hightemperature superconductiv ity and superfl uidity Potential application s Related articles

Quantum cryptography

Commercializat ion[93]

Secure communication s

Smartstores RFID based self Radio-frequency identification Diffusion of high cost[94][95][96] Barcode checkout(keepi ng track of all incoming and outgoing products), food packaging,

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Making the web machineSemantic Web or answer machine Research, limited use readable by Web 2.0 annotating data on the web based on its meaning

Corporate Semantic Web, Sema ntic Web Services, Se mantic Web Stack, Web 3.0

Traditional, frequencySoftware-defined radio Development, commercializati on specific radio circuits, dedicated sign al processinghar dware Cognitive radio, mesh networks, soft ware defined antenna GNU Radio, Unive rsal Software Radio Peripheral

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Research, Speech recognition Development, ion Mechanical Commercializat input devices

Three-dimensional integrated circuit

Development, on[97][98]

Conventional i circuit

commercializati ntegrated

Virtual Reality

Diffusion

Entertainment, education

Oculus Rift