The year now ending was very little profitable technology targeted at the end consumer. It was a year of confirmation. We saw the mass of drones and confirmed the potential of 3D printing when placed in the hands of the most common users. Virtual reality has been postponed to 2016 and electric cars entered timidly, in our daily lives. Incidentally, the “green” cars continue to make its crossing of the desert and fight against the Goliath of fossil fuels. The Tesla leads the squad (in innovation) with powerful vehicles that need 30 minutes of charging (a technology that uses ultra-fast loading systems) to provide 200 km of autonomy. It is still not ideal, but there you walk. In the world, who sold more electric was Nissan. We are still far from massification and technologies such as hydrogen watch for your opportunity in an area that is still suffering various technological upheavals … so common to the early stages of an industrial transformation that can help change the planet. In Portugal, the few electric circulating still do not pay the electricity they consume. Yes, MOBI.E network remains free. Just load the car and go. Who pays? The state. We therefore. In cars, the year ends with a story that comes from the US where the first tests of a flying car passed. The TF-X will start flying in 2016 in a closed circuit.
SMARTPHONES
This was the year when the market slowed smartphones, but continued To grow. There, now in Portugal, over five million such devices. Ie half of the Portuguese population has a smart phone in his pocket. All studies indicate that this is the moment when it reaches the tipping point and that from here, growth, if any, is much slower. In the world, China, India and Brazil … are the markets where this type of terminal is growing at double digits. They are the engines that continue to feed manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung or Huawei to materialize, there, the higher sales volumes. In fact, consumer electronics manufacturers have found another battlefield:. The Wearables
Smartwatches, bracelets, scales, sensors to put in tennis, doors … we’re getting surrounded by interconnecting devices and this revolution had the starting gun this year.
Yes, in 2015 Apple and Samsung have fueled their rivalry. But while the US company continues to grow in value and to diversify their activity (the rumors about the entry in the segment of electric cars were constant) with a successful debut in the music streaming market; South Korea suffers from the reduced margins in the segment of smartphones and tablets and the Chinese competition. It is true that Samsung is also changing. And see below. It is marking the ground in areas with high growth potential such as the Internet of Things and Virtual Reality. Investments that will offset the short time
By the way, buzzwords like:. Internet of Things, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Deep Learning … continued to make the headlines of the companies that are using these technologies to make business. But it was nice to see that they are really being implemented. There are cities in Portugal (Oeiras, for example) where the routes of garbage collection are already optimized due to the placement of sensors within the crates. Outside and within the concept of Deep Learning, a robot taught himself (I repeat myself) playing chess in 72 hours and do it to the level of International Master. Artificial Intelligence has evolved at a pace that some consider frightening. In fact, some entrepreneurs Technology lead this threat so seriously that created a USD bottom billion for the development of Artificial Intelligence is closely monitored and all developments become available to the largest possible number of companies.
In Health, scientists have used biotechnology to edit DNA lives cells and thus change the design of some beings. They were created so that mosquitoes do not have the ability to spread malaria or dogs with stronger muscles. And so, too, that we all start eating genetically altered in a few years.
SPACE
But it was out there in space which witnessed the most important moments. Was passionate accompany the “return to life” of Philae probe (in late 2014) and see all the information that the little robot could collect a meteorite moving before shut forever – the European Space Agency tried unsuccessfully to one last communication with the device last Christmas Day.
The discovery of water on Mars made the headlines and left us dreaming of easier space exploration where colonies and scattered planets serve as “posts supply “for exploratory missions. He was now to know that have been frozen carbon dioxide to create the ravines and the Martians beds. . And no water
The year ends with good news: SpaceX was able to recover a rocket that was sent on a mission. That is, an aerospace company can privately finally optimize its operation reusing part of the aircraft. What gives SpaceX, Elon Musk, the ability to start operating, actually, in 2016.
It is important to Elon Musk because he is the great visionary of the year that is now ending. In fact, so it was in 2014 and probably will keep that title until 2020. The boss of Tesla and SpaceX is aiming to change the world. Be in Space, is down here on Earth. Even taking into account that the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) today considers as “enemy of technology.” This is because Musk is one of the main activists in controlling the development of Artificial Intelligence which he considers a major threat to humanity. And you’re right. As we scan everything that surrounds us, we need computers that are able to analyze real-time large amounts of information. In fact, the machines will have to intuit scenarios and take preventive action on occasion.
This is the way we started to go more clearly in 2015 and no longer going to stop breaking. Artificial Intelligence, with all the inherent dangers (who does not like a good plot Sci-Fi?), Is part of our future. Incidentally, our evolution and survival as a species depends on more intelligent machines. And it never became as clear as later this year.
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