227/08 Social challanges s the basis for foresight - Gaia
227/08 Social challanges s the basis for foresight - Gaia
227/08 Social challanges s the basis for foresight - Gaia
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M2.4 Use of on-demand TV exceeds <strong>the</strong> use<br />
of broadcasting TV.<br />
M2.7 Electronic media applications, e.g. voice,<br />
can be integrated in paper based products<br />
and it is possible to produce <strong>the</strong>se in large<br />
amounts quickly.<br />
M1.8 A portable digital display that is so flexible<br />
(thin and soft) that it can be substituted<br />
<strong>for</strong> newspaper.<br />
M3.9 A system that can construct a text-based easy-tounderstand<br />
story from fragmented facts and knowledge<br />
and show it as a presentation (and can also add<br />
presumably necessary figures and images<br />
when instructed). Automatic system<br />
(expert systems) that subs<br />
M1.11 Each citizen as an individual digital space that<br />
can be used anytime and anywhere and<br />
allows managing personal life and e.g. public services.<br />
M1.3 Half of working people are working remotely from home<br />
or o<strong>the</strong>r proper places using virtual technologies that<br />
allow sufficient social contacts with co-workers.<br />
M3.1 Widespread use of electronic secretary terminals that<br />
offer functions such as voice recognition and fuzzy search,<br />
in addition to <strong>the</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation agent functions <strong>for</strong><br />
schedule management and access to databases.<br />
M1.5 Widespread use of a system that allows people to<br />
remotely enjoy paintings or music per<strong>for</strong>mances as<br />
if <strong>the</strong>y were actually walking around a gallery,<br />
looking at each painting, or sitting in a concert hall,<br />
listening to a live per<strong>for</strong>mance.<br />
M1.7 Widespread use of 3D TV that may be<br />
watched without wearing special glasses<br />
and feeling fatigue in homes.<br />
M1.9 All schoolchildren have an electronic rucksack<br />
with multifunctional paper like-terminal.<br />
M3.2 A portable conversation device that allows<br />
people with disabilities to convert <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
thoughts into speech.<br />
M3.12 An artificial intelligence chip capable of<br />
understanding human feelings<br />
from facial expressions.<br />
M3.6 Widespread use of a telephone with<br />
real-time language translation capability.<br />
M2.8 Mobile electronic devices will substitute<br />
majority of printed books in fiction.<br />
M3.3 Technology that allows <strong>the</strong> computer to electrically<br />
and magnetically read <strong>the</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation recorded<br />
in <strong>the</strong> human brain.<br />
M3.4 Discovery of a mechanism <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> human brain<br />
to directly receive a greater amount of in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
faster by means of systems o<strong>the</strong>r than <strong>the</strong> visual (text)<br />
and auditory (sound) systems.<br />
M3.5 An external brain function system that is wearable<br />
and operable through a natural interface and can store<br />
general knowledge like dictionaries as well as<br />
a large amount of personal knowledge,experience,<br />
and in<strong>for</strong>mation to extend and enhance <strong>the</strong> brain<br />
2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035<br />
Figure 6.4b. Time of social application of <strong>the</strong> statements (red technological realization, blue social<br />
application).