List of emerging technologies
IT and communications

List of emerging technologies

Section Title: IT and communications
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Emerging technology	Status	Potential applications	Related articles

5G cellular communications	Research and development	Smartphones, Tablets

Ambient intelligence	Hypothetical

Artificial brain	Research	Treatment of neurological disease, artificial intelligence	Blue Brain Project, Human Brain Project

Artificial general intelligence	Hypothetical, experiments;	Creating intelligent devices and robots; AI can counsel (or even take charge) in scientific projects, government, army, corporate governance, film and books creation, inventions etc.	Progress in artificial intelligence, technological singularity, applications of artificial intelligence

Atomtronics	Hypothetical

Augmented reality	Diffusion	Google Glass, Windows Mixed Reality, Microsoft HoloLens, Mixed reality, Smartglasses

Blockchain or distributed ledger technology	Diffusion	Eliminating or lowering transaction costs; distributed, open and transparent record keeping; non-hierarchical networked systems; cryptography	Bitcoin, Digital currency, Cryptocurrency, e-democracy

Carbon nanotube field-effect transistor	Research and development	Extending moore's law

Civic technology	Research and development, projects	Smart cities, more responsive government	Civic technology, Smart city, e-democracy, open data, intelligent environment

Cryptocurrency	Diffusion	Money supply, World reserve currency	Bitcoin, Digital currency

DNA digital data storage	Experiments	Mass data storage

Exascale computing	Projects

Gesture recognition	Diffusion

Internet of Things	Diffusion

Emerging memory technologies	In development	T-RAM, memristor, Z-RAM, TTRAM, CBRAM, SONOS, RRAM, Racetrack memory, NRAM, Phase-change memory, FJG RAM, Millipede memory, Skyrmion, Programmable metallization cell, 3D XPoint, Ferroelectric RAM, Magnetoresistive random-access memory, nvSRAM

Emerging magnetic data storage technologies	In development (HAMR, BPM); diffusion (SMR)	Greatly improved storage density compared to current HDDs, can be combined	SMR, HAMR, BPM, MAMR, TDMR, CPP/GMR, PMR, Hard disk drive

Fourth-generation optical discs (3D optical data storage, Holographic data storage)	Research, prototyping	Storing and archiving data previously erased for economic reasons	Blu-ray Disc, Optical storage

General-purpose computing on graphics processing units	Diffusion of non standardized methods	Order of magnitude faster processing of parallelizable algorithms

Exocortex	Diffusion of primitive amplifications; working prototypes of more; Hypothetical, experiments on more substantial amplification

Li-Fi	Demos, requires standardization

Machine translation	Diffusion	Easier and cheaper cross-cultural communication

Machine vision	Research, prototyping, commercialization	Biometrics, controlling processes (e.g., in driverless car, automated guided vehicle), detecting events (e.g., in visual surveillance), interaction (e.g., in human-computer interaction), robot vision	Computer vision, pattern recognition, digital image processing

Mobile collaboration and e-learning	Development, commercialization	Extends the capabilities of video conferencing for use on hand-held mobile devices in real-time over secure networks. For use in diverse industries such as manufacturing, energy, healthcare.

Multimodal contactless biometric face/iris systems	Deployed at various airports and federal security checkpoints	Unimodal facial recognition scanners

Nanoradio	Research & Development, diffusion

Optical computing	Hypothetical, experiments; some components of integrated circuits have been developed	Smaller, faster, lower power consuming computing

Quantum computing	Hypothetical, experiments, commercialization	Much faster computing, for some kinds of problems, chemical modeling, new materials with programmed properties, Hypothetical of high-temperature superconductivity and superfluidity

Quantum cryptography	Commercialization	Secure communications

Radio-frequency identification	Diffusion of high cost	Smartstores - RFID based self checkout (keeping track of all incoming and outgoing products), food packaging, smart shelves, smart carts. See: potential uses

Semantic Web or answer machine	Research, limited use	Making the web machine-readable by annotating data on the web based on its meaning	Corporate Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, Semantic Web Stack, Web 3.0

Smart speaker	Commercialization	Home automation, communication with people and machines	Amazon Echo, Google Home, HomePod

Software-defined radio	Development, commercialization	Cognitive radio, Mesh networks, Software defined antenna	GNU Radio, List of software-defined radios, Universal Software Radio Peripheral

Speech recognition	Research, Development, Commercialization

Subvocal recognition	Research, Development, Commercialization

Virtual Reality	Diffusion	Entertainment, education	Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR

Hybrid forensics	Research, commercialization	digital forensics, electronic discovery, malware detection, IT compliance

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The emerging technological advancement Mobile collaboration has extended the capabilities of video conferencing for use on handheld mobile devices, permitting mobile collaborative possibilities.
The Mobile collaboration technology has extended the capabilities of video conferencing for use on hand-held mobile devices.

final_sentence: The emerging technological advancement Mobile collaboration has extended the capabilities of video conferencing for use on handheld mobile devices, permitting mobile collaborative possibilities.
final_sentence: The Mobile collaboration technology has extended the capabilities of video conferencing for use on hand-held mobile devices.