Technological Driving Forces

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• (Idle) Computer Processing Power

• Access to internet (Johannes)

• Access to clean cooking (Johannes)

• Artificial Neural Networks

• Advance in alternative farming methodologies - Neil Hazra

• Automation and the future of work

• Availability of new manufacturing technologies (3D printing, automation, robotics)

• Biometrics

• Solid State Energy Storage - Abdallah Mteir

• Coal Seam Gas

• Containerization

• Continuously Evolving Wireless Technologies

• Convergence of Telecommunication, Media & entertainment and Information technology

• Cost of Computer Resources

• Data-intensive Computing

• Decline of (R&D) cooperation between public and private

• Decrease in investments in R&D

• Decrease of Highly Educated Technology Workforce

• Development of 3G techonology

• Development of informatiion search technologies

• Drilling Technology

• Disruptive Technology: Wireless Local Loop

• Embedded Systems

• Emergence of e-Science

• Experiences with current technical solutions

• Fusion Power (Sebastian)

• Gaming Industry

• GPS Evolution

• Test

• Homographic Modeling

• Increasing Efficiency in Energy Use

• Increasing Human-Computer Interaction

• Increasing impact of advance technologies on mobility

• Increasing potential to grow based on new available technology

• Increasing Use of e-Commerce

• Increasing use of digital media on internet

• Increasing use of mobile phones as universal interface/controller

• Increasing user-generated content

• IPv6

• Low cost of Internet Connections

• Lower cost of manufacturing laptop

• Metcalfe's law applied to social networks

• Mobility

• Nanotechnology

• Need for common programming platform

• Network Bandwidth

• Network Latencies

• Open decentralized electricity networks

• Parallel Computing

• Peer-to-Peer Technology

• Power Line Communication

• Preventing game piracy: Digital Rights Management

• Programming Languages

• Programming standards

• Reduction of organizational and technological complexity

• THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW GENERATION POWER ELECTRONICS CIRCUIT

• The Future of TV

• The Growing of GNU Project and The Open Source Community

• The Improvements in Security of WiFi Transmissions

• The Increasing Use of Internet

• The Increasing use of modchips and emulators

• The New Way of Utilizing P2P Network

• THE POTENTIAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY

• THE POWERFUL SOLAR-POWER TECHNOLOGY

• The Rapid Increase in WiFi Transmission Rates

• The rise of home entertainment systems

• The TV Set becomes the Computer

• The war on Spy- and Ad ware

• Uses for the net

• Very large-scale simulation

• Virtual Communities

• Voice over Wi-Fi (Vo-Wi-Fi) will be released

• Voice-recognition system

• Whereabout the fourth generation mobile technology

• Widespread use of voice over IP (and specifically the introduction of Skype)

• WiBro

• WiMAX

• The increase of digital developing functions in a mobile phone

• The development 0f a Robot helping household affairs

• Prospect of Flexible Display

• Development of System on Display

• Increasing Competitiveness through innovation in biotechnology

• Improvement in transportation through inventions

• Technical Innovation in the supply chain

• Innovation in health care

• The hydrogen technology in the storage system - Minh Nguyen Duc

• Decreased cost of monitoring natural resources - Brendan Moroso

• Increased investment in digitization and distribution of grids - Richa Kushwaha

• The advance of solar PV panel efficiencies Maximization - Wei Chou Wang

• A Rise in Automation Effecting the Manufacturing Labor Force - Thalia Fry

• Availability of more eco-friendly materials - Subhashree

• Optimized Supply Chain processes -Tobi Abimbola

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