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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).

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