The technology may not change the world from one year to the other. The personal computers took a long time to get out of the labs, academia and the circles of enthusiasts, and it took years to settle in most homes and offices. The Internet was invented over four decades ago, but only began the mass at the end of the decade of 1990.
The year of 2016, he gave examples of some of the technological transformations in the course. Amazon has made deliveries with drones, a truck of beer led alone by the main highways, an augmented reality game won fans all over the world. Are trends that started in 2016, and that does not bring abrupt changes in 2017, but that are slowly shaping the way we consume, work, and interact with each other and manage the day to day life.
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At the end of this year, it was revealed what has been presented as a project of Mark Zuckerberg: a personal digital assistant, able to delete the lights, open the door to people you know, turn on the toaster and speak with the voice of actor Morgan Freeman. In an interview, the founder of the social network stated that it has developed the wizard (named Jarvis) for the sake of challenge. The system is not part of the plans of Facebook and would not work in another house than to Zuckerberg.
Taking the voice of Freeman, Jarvis is not unique. The Google launched this year Google Home, a wizard that is able to play music on demand (linked to services such as Spotify and YouTube), give information about the user’s schedule, the weather and the traffic, and to interact with household equipment such as the lights or the tv. Amazon had already launched a similar product in 2015. And this kind of assistants is available there is a lot in mobile phones.
The artificial intelligence is a vast field, with applications ranging from industry to the armies. Today, by the hands of some of the most influential companies in the world, begins to enter in the houses.
virtual Reality
virtual reality is a promise the former, but is only now beginning to wake up the interest of consumers.
The game Pokémon Go was the first major success of what is called augmented reality: the digital images which overlap the real world, in this case through the camera of million mobile phones. Already Sony has released for this holiday season, the PlayStation VR, a virtual reality glasses to be used with the console of the company. The chinese manufacturer Huawei also presented this year to your glasses, that compete with those of Samsung, and Oculus Rift (a company of Facebook) debuted in March with your model.
By now, the sales are relatively low, but the analyst IDC estimates that the market for virtual and augmented reality, which in 2016 will have been about five thousand million of euros, grow 181% per year until the end of the decade, which includes the market of appliances for professional use.
Machines workers
The year kicked off with a World Forum of Davos to give more questions than answers about the work in the era of the fourth industrial revolution. Finished off with Amazon launching a pilot programme of deliveries with drones in the United Kingdom. According to the multinational, with the first delivery (a package of popcorn) came into the hands of the buyer just 13 minutes after being ordered – no driver human to be able to do to get in such a short space of time.
With intelligent robots, lines of assemblies, automated, boxes of supermarket where it is the client who registers the purchases and cars that may dispense with conductors, there are millions of jobs at risk. But this happens not only with the type of jobs that do not require academic qualifications.
The automatic translations, for example, are increasingly competent, although still far from a professional translator. This year, scientists from Google said they have developed technology that, in the case of some pairs of languages, reduces between 55% and 85% of the mistakes made by the previous system of the company. This month, Microsoft has made an update for your application translation. The technology allows you to use a mobile phone to translate that is to say, making the translation appear on the screen of the other participants in the conversation. In some cases, the application is able to "speak" in the language desired.
Also in medicine, the technology is entering areas that until recently were exclusively human. The Watson, a powerful artificial intelligence system of IBM, began to participate in contests on tv, but is now making medical diagnoses, and sometimes the conclusions that had escaped the doctors. The computer is able to analyze the medical records of patients, relevant scientific literature, and compare a case with millions of others.
No hands on the steering wheel
The cars able to drive alone are not yet around the corner, but approaching at great speed. Electric cars Tesla have a way of auto-pilot (which has already failed with fatal consequences). Several manufacturers have demonstrated the technology is almost ready. Google has little cars without steering wheel to move on the roads of the USA. The Uber has done pilot experiments with cars autonomous in the United States (for now, got problems with the authorities for some vehicles to have passed signals at red). In October, 50 thousand beers left in the history as the first payload delivered by a truck to stand-alone. The vehicle was Otto, a subsidiary of Uber.
So that the cars stand-alone are the rule on the roads have yet to resolve legal problems, and overcome ethical challenges. For example, the car must protect the passengers at all cost or you must go against a wall if it means saving a larger number of lives of pedestrians?
Solve this puzzle is not to say that everyone will have a car stand-alone garage. The Uber has already admitted that it wants to compete with the need of own car. It is not difficult to imagine a future in which a fleet of cars autonomous is at the distance of a mobile application.
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