Envisioning Emerging Technology #edtech
“Understanding where technology is heading is more than guesswork. Looking at emerging trends and research, one can predict and draw conclusions about how the technology sphere is developing, and which technologies, should become mainstream in the coming years. Envisioning technology is meant to facilitate these observations by taking a step back and seeing the wider context. By speculating about what lies beyond we can make better decisions of what to create today.”
Covering aspects of the Internet, sensors, biotech, energy, interfaces, etc this infographic projects technological development to 2040, and the importance and impact on consumers.
Thanks to Steve Wheeler for sharing this on ‘Future school’ Scoop.it.
Thought-provoking graphic, as is the omission of ‘education’ from the list of column headings…
Yeah, pity that!
David
Hey David & Malcolm, I’m the author of the visualization!
I have to defend not putting Education as an area of specific emerging technologies (as it leans more toward application than research) but you might be happy to hear I recently published a visualization dedicated entirely to the future of emerging tech in education on:
http://www.envisioningtech.com/education/
Hope you like it!
Thanks Michell – I’ve posted the new one too!