While people already employed in tech jobs have added app writing to their rsums, the profession offers few options to most unemployed, underemployed and discouraged workers.
which technology is reshaping at an accelerating speed. The upheaval, in some ways echoing the mechanization of agriculture a century ago,
began its latest turbulent phase with the migration of tech manufacturing to places like China.
Technology is always destroying jobs and always creating jobs, but in recent years the destruction has been happening faster than the creation,
Four of the most valuable American companies#Apple, Google, Microsoft and I b m.#are rooted in technology.
And the tech industry has begun making claims about how apps are contributing to the broader economy A study commissioned by the tech advocacy group Technet found that the app economy##including Apple, Facebook,
One thing they never scrimped on was technology especially Apple technology. At one point they owned a 24-inch imac, a Mac Mini, a 24-inch cinema display screen, two 13-inch Macbook Airs, a 15-inch Macbook
Pro, two ipad 2s, two Apple TVS, two iphone 4s and an iphone 3gs. We justify buying new models by saying we need them to test out the apps,
Mr. Grimes now works as an app developer for ELC Technologies, an Oregon company that allowed him to stay in Baltimore.
and you would have some idea of Apple s reluctance to let anyone outside of its walls fool with any of its technology.
Many industry executives and technology experts say Philips s approach is gaining ground on Apple s. Even as Foxconn,
and technologists over how quickly jobs will be lost. This year, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee, economists at the Massachusetts institute of technology, made the case for a rapid transformation.
#In their minds, the advent of low-cost automation foretells changes on the scale of the revolution in agricultural technology over the last century,
which has deployed already robot technology. Rapid improvement in vision and touch technologies is putting a wide array of manual jobs within the abilities of robots.
For example, Boeing s wide-body commercial jets are riveted now automatically by giant machines that move rapidly and precisely over the skin of the planes.
an engineer who is the chief executive at Adept Technology, a robot maker based in Pleasanton, Calif.,that developed Earthbound s system.
the director of robotics technology at an Atlanta consulting firm called Factory Automation Systems, offered attendees a spreadsheet to calculate how quickly robots would pay for themselves.
#said Tom Kalil, deputy director of the White house Office of Science and Technology Policy. Government officials and industry executives argue that
A report commissioned by the International Federation of Robotics last year found that 150,000 people are employed already by robotics manufacturers worldwide in engineering and assembly jobs.
But Mr. Visser, the engineer who manages the assembly, takes pride in the sophistication of the latest shavers.
The assembly line here is made up of dozens of glass cages housing robots made by Adept Technology that snake around the factory floor for more than 100 yards.
The robot uses a technology pioneered in Microsoft s Kinect motion sensing system for its Xbox video game system.
The engineers are confident that the robot will soon do much better than that, picking up and setting down one box per second.
as the company s heart and soul, a majority of its workers in the United states are not engineers or executives with hefty salaries and bonuses but rather hourly wage earners selling iphones and Macbooks.
the company is a reflection of the technology industry as a whole. The Internet and advances in computing have created untold millionaires,
but most of the jobs created by technology giants are service sector positions#sales employees and customer service representatives,
Stores in a variety of fields have adopted the company s retail techniques like the use of roving credit-card swipers to minimize checkout lines,
and the candidates of choice are affable and self-directed rather than tech-savvy. The latter can be taught,
and is comfortable with technology. People who fit that bill tend to be in their early or mid-20s,
Walk-in demand for tech help was so great that when the bar was open, management at these stores decreed,
But the technology wasn t an immediate success. Another 40 years later the electric utilities were stable and profitable businesses.
and a 20th-century success. Now it s a failure again, edged out by new technologies, like LEDS,
The materials and technology have improved. Thermoplastics are cheap and practically impervious to the elements. 10.
The cart uses Microsoft s Kinect motion-sensor technology to track and follow you through the store,
This tech,#says Dr. Philip Low, the founder of a medical technology firm called Neurovigil
Bathroom Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard are working on a technology that would make household cleaning supplies much smarter#almost like a sprayable forensics team.
Eventually, the technology could be used to create escape routes or extinguish fires without damaging sensitive equipment nearby. 28.
But the once-rarefied technique is becoming mass market. Cuisine Solutions, the company that pioneered sous vide (Keller hired it to train his chefs),
Soon, you ll be able to use similar technology in your front yard. The home landscaping company Toro already has a line of consumer-grade moisture sensors that turn on the sprinkler system
That data is relayed to the rancher via a cellphone using a variety of technologies including 3g.
This technology could also send farmers instant notification if their animals are in heat, going into labor or in distress.
when cows are in heat The collar is being developed by researchers from the University of Strathclyde, Morrisons, Scottish Agricultural College, Harbro, Well Cow, National Milk Records (NMR) and Embedded Technology Solutions.
A three-year grant for the project co-funded by the UK s Technology Strategy Board equals roughly more than $2 million.
The project is taking place at Morrisons farm and Dumfries House for technology research in Scotland.
director of the Technology Strategy Board s sustainable agriculture and food projects, said, Addressing animal health and welfare challenges and improving animal performance monitoring are vital pieces of the food security jigsaw.
The technologies developed through this project have the potential to benefit farming communities in the UK
and around the world and we wish the partners every success.#This isn t the first invention to connect cattle to monitoring technology.
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invested in Monsanto, supports a high-tech vision of agriculture, rather than the low-tech, affordable, diverse, climate-resistant,
Resistance to new technology is again hurting the people who nothing to do with climate change happening,
and hunger, said gene technologies would undermine the nations capacities to feed themselves by destroying established diversity, local knowledge and sustainable agricultural systems.
Part of that delusion is not realizing that for opposition to GM CROPS often doesn t stem from opposition to new technology at all.
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#25 Technologies I Didn t See at CES Futurist Thomas Frey: After spending the past three days scouring the showroom floors at CES,
watching people become overwhelmed by what they saw, I tended to be more underwhelmed by what
But as the industry was getting sucked towards the gravitational allure of these technologies, many others,
here are 25 technologies I d love to see at future CES events. AIQ Smart Clothing with soft padding that stiffens upon impact,
However, using technology to compensate, and make you look good, even though you re fatigued, angry,
and tech trimming lies some far bigger opportunities. 5.)Driverless cars The next revolution in transportation will be self-driving cars,
and the adoption of this technology will change virtually everything in the field of transportation and urban planning.
Better to practice without passengers onboard to perfect the technology. Railroads and trucking companies should be worried as this will displace much of their industry.
Miscellaneous Technologies As with many new technologies, not all of them fit into easily definable categories.
) Password Eliminator Technology Even with all our sophisticated security technology being built-in to computer platforms,
This is the promise of food printer technology as we move from simply printing ink on paper
yet the tech world has glossed over most of the opportunities here. Future plant monitors will give us the ability to communicate#with our plants and produce far more sophisticated forms of food. 20.
Auquaponics Tech For those of you not familiar with the term, aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines traditional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, crayfish,
because nano-sized technology is tough to display. Final Thoughts To be sure, there were many impressive technologies on display at CES
and one that really caught my eye was a 3d modeling system developed by a Hungarian company Leonar3do.
and the request that product developers continue to work on disruptive technologies. We are still in the awkward in-between stages of technology.
I ll feel much more comfortable when we get to the other side. By Futurist Thomas Frey Author of Communicating with the Future#the book that changes everything Via Futuristspeaker. com Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati swfobject. embedswf (http//www. youtube
It was from this seemingly innocent birthing chamber that this piece of monetary-replacement technology would begin its three-year rollercoaster journey
This is the promise of food printer technology as we move from simply printing ink on paper
#Similarly, whenever a column is written about the best paying jobs of the future, jobs like civil engineers, registered nurses,
and change as technology and communication systems make their impact. As an example, technology research firm IDC predicts the amount of data businesses will have access to will grow 50-fold over the next decade.
As data becomes cheaper, faster, and more pervasive, the nature of our work begins to change as well.
In a world where technology has replaced people in many roles, these are now popular hobbyist jobs for students and older Qataris.
and self sufficient in water thanks to an affordable osmosis from salt water technique perfected by a young Qatari student at Texas A&m University in 2028
Effective language technologies (natural language processing, speech recognition and speech synthesis) are in common use. According to Android vice president Hugo Barra, these were near-perfect for some languages in 2013.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers predicted that autonomous cars would account for up to 75 percent of vehicles on the road by the year 2040.
In 2013, Futurist Thomas Frey at Colorado s Davinci Institute predicted that friction-free technologies
From 2030, much of this technology was developed by researchers in Qatar and created by joint ventures with international firms.
This technology decouples food production from the availability of natural resources. It saves a huge cost,
tasty ingredients and gourmet cooking techniques. The assembly method also improves hygiene, as well as reduces preparation space and ultimately real estate rental costs.
of which use the same hydroponic food growing techniques perfected in Qatar) making it a truly intergalactic capital city.
I m riding in with an engineer named Anthony Levandowski. Both cars are heading south on Highway 880 in Oakland,
#Levandowski is an engineer at Google X, the company s semi-secret lab for experimental technology.
and rocket ships, transporter beams and cities beneath the sea, of a predicted future still well beyond our technology.
and fizzled technologies of the past. When he showed them to me one night at his house,
Engineers huddle around a driverless Ford on a test track.##oecars like this one may be on the nation s roads by the year 2000!#
Engineers at Berkeley later went a step further: they spiked the track with magnets, alternating their polarity in binary patterns to send messages to the car#oeslow down, sharp curve ahead.#
In the nineteen-eighties, a German engineer named Ernst Dickmanns, at the Bundeswehr University in Munich, equipped a Mercedes van with video cameras and processors,
if it was the technology or the people. So they did this crazy thing, which was really visionary.#
Levandowski was now a student at Berkeley, in the industrial-engineering department. When he wasn t studying
Good engineering is all about gaming the system, Levandowski says#bout sidestepping obstacles rather than trying to run over them.
#oebefore you can drive ten feet you have to do a year of engineering, #Levandowski says.
engineers jump up and down, bike falls over#ore than six hundred times in a row.##oewe built the bike
#Finally, a year into the project, a Russian engineer named Alex Krasnov cracked the code.
a marvel of engineering, beating out seventy-eight four-wheeled competitors. Two years later, the Smithsonian added the motorcycle to its collection;
Google engineers went on to jury-rig some vans with G. P. S . and rooftop cameras that could shoot in every direction.
Within five weeks, he and a team of fellow Berkeley graduates and other engineers had re
Proponents characterize bio-factories as examples of#oegreen technology#that are sustainable and immune to fickle weather and disease.
Much of the early hype surrounding this technology was about biofuels#the dream of engineering colonies of yeast that could produce enough fuel to power whole cities.
technologies. Reengineering yeast Since it was founded a decade ago, Amyris has become a legend in the field that sits at the intersection of biology and engineering,
creating more than 3 million organisms. Unlike traditional genetic engineering, which typically involves swapping a few genes, the scientists are building entire genomes from scratch.
Excited about the idea of trying to apply the technology to a commercial product, Keasling,
Jim Thomas, a researcher for the ETC Group, said there is a larger issue that applies to all organisms produced by synthetic biology techniques:
It s not just Google that s developing the technology, but also most of the major car manufacturers:
This year will mark another key milestone in self-driving technology. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is expected widely to announce standards
Google s crew of young testers have been trained in extreme driving techniques#ncluding emergency braking, high-speed lane changes,
but we don t actually know the value of the technology to society, #he says#oeyet.#
Its engineers have made pilgrimages to Detroit and abroad. And its data experts have been talking with some of the big insurance companies.
For the car companies, the real cost of implementing the technology would be specialized in the peripheral that Chauffeur needs to run:
A grizzled maverick of an engineer named David Hall designed the lidar that Google uses.
The return on the engineering investment might be negative for decades to come. It s a catch-22, a classic chicken-and-egg problem:
there s no way the technology could get to the showroom by 2017. Google is not a car manufacturer.
or body style to come out to build the technology, #he told the SAE audience.##oei m looking forward to the aftermarket seeding this
It too is filled with catch-22 s. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker s analysis of self-driving-car technology.#
Bryant Walker Smith, a civil engineer, lawyer, and Stanford Law school fellow, is the leading expert on how existing law would apply to self-driving cars.
But that doesn t mean the development of potentially lifesaving technology should be halted.##oethere wasn t legal protection for the Wright brothers
But 50 years after Ralph Nader s Unsafe at Any Speed sparked a revolution in safety engineering,
#Technology, he says, should prevent oblivious drivers from causing harm. Self-driving-car boosters talk about a virtuous circle that starts
It uses technology that s already built into every high-end Volvo sold today, plus a communications system.
A 2012 IEEE study estimates that widespread adoption of autonomous-driving technology could increase highway capacity fivefold, simply by packing traffic closer together.
Wayne Gerdes, the father of#oehypermiling,#can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.
autonomous technology could help them get there faster. NHTSA defines five levels of autonomous-car tech,
with level zero being nothing. Level one cars include standard safety features such as ABS brakes, electronic stability control,
Already NHTSA has mandated level-one technologies in every new car. Several automakers have systems that approach level two on the test track,
But the real engineering challenge is making sure the driver stays alert.##oeall kinds of problems crop up in real-world testing,
So engineers have begun to design countermeasures. Mercedes, for example, requires two hands on the steering wheel at all times.#
Even though these techniques have been around for a long time, technology in this area has taken recently a quantum leap forward, and many are beginning to think in terms of houses that generate their own water supply,
self-irrigating crops, and even#oewaterless#cities. The earth s atmosphere is a far more elegant water distribution system than rivers, reservoirs,
Nano on a competition to devise future uses for their super condensation technology. In total, they received 81 entries, some
These companies are using a variety of technologies to drive costs down for extracting water from air.
This technology recently won an international competition. Dropnet Fog Collector http://www. greenmuze. com/nature/water/2358-fog-harvesting-dropnet.
Is this a technology light enough for every athlete to carry with them, every adventurer to wear on their belt,
#Top 10 cutting-edge technologies in development Tube transportation is the future of transportation. You shouldn t give up on flying cars or hoverboards just yet.
As technology continues to march on, everything will go into development sooner or later#s demonstrated by the existence of these things,
But the technology is coming along, and it s easy to imagine it implemented on a wide-scale basis before too long.
A University of Utah study in November 2012 confirmed that this could be done in a lab. Perfection of this technology could result in the potential end of tooth decay, gum disease, fillings,
Researchers at MIT, who are apparently good at the cutting-edge technology thing (hence the#oet),
Such amazing technology will have to wait to come to marketplace though, until costs can be driven down#ight?
#oethe technology itself is one that s easy and inexpensive and, as far as we are aware andnature is aware,
Meanwhile, some Georgia Tech researchers are taking a slightly different approach toward the same ends.
Nikola Tesla might have perfected the technology a century ago if he had not been poor, unlucky, and kind of crazy.
ET3 will be global space travel On earth Daryl Oster, CEO for Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies. Elon musk is a brilliant, big-thinking, subtly accented,
physicist turned financing pioneer turned engineer, self-made billionaire who has led the design of revolutionary cars
#and he and the dozen Spacex and Tesla Motors engineers amped up the effort. They modeled,
Oster, 51, runs a consortium called ET3, for Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies, and his vision has the rare distinction of being even bolder than one emerging from the mind of Elon musk. Like Hyperloop,
While studying engineering at Walla Walla University in Washington, he loaded different shapes into a small wind tunnel
All the while, Oster turned over the idea of ET3 in a growing number of engineering notebooks.
their real estate and occasional freelance engineering contracts sustained them. Then the real-estate market crashed about the same time Oster s dad experienced a big health scare.#
or the challenge he s had raising money are any reflection on the technology or him personally.#
and difficult#problems associated with evacuated tube technology. There are three keys to ET3: a narrow tube diameter, minimal capsule weight and high-temperature maglev technology.
Narrower tubes (ET3 specifies a diameter of five feet) mean less vacuum pumping and lighter pylons and bridges for support (like Musk,
The technology uses liquid nitrogen rather than liquid helium as a coolant, which lets the system run somewhere between 63 and 77 Kelvin (minus-321 to minus-346 Fahrenheit, the zone in
Rather than using maglev technology, Hyperloop cars float on a cushion of air. As with ET3, Hyperloop s minimizing air resistance
Experts in traditional transportation tend to be flummoxed by these systems, with their strange technologies and disregard for the traditional boundaries of road, rail and air, transit and cargo.
#James Powell co-invented maglev technology while at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the 1960s. He backs the idea of an Interstate Maglev Project,
It represents a huge engineering challenge, Powell said, particularly considering near perfection must carry across maybe 25,000 pillars and as many tube segments,
Both had recognized that incumbents had left open a high-speed niche that a clever assemblage of technologies might finally be able to fill.
State of the art Infrared Technology In the late 1980s, I was an engineer working as part of an IBM team to build a mobile satellite command and control center for monitoring missile launches from space.
This contract was part of Reagan s#oestar Wars#missile defense system. Whenever a missile was launched, the heat plume coming out of the back of the rocket produces a distinct heat signature instantly detectable by satellites tens of thousands of miles away with infrared sensors.
The technology we were using over 25 years ago could instantly detect missile launches anywhere on earth, within seconds of the launch.
I can only assume today s technology is hundreds of times more precise than anything we were working with back then. 2007 NASA image of forest fires in California The above photo was infrared taken with thermal imaging sensors on NASA s Ikhana unmanned research
That same technology could be adjusted to detect forest fires at a very early stage. Thermal image of Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat Massachusetts State Police released video taken of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev s
However, this same technology can be modified to work on flying drones to monitor fire activity on forestlands.
Oil exploration drone used in Norway Aerial drone technology is advancing exponentially and much of
New technology rarely fixes everything and it s easy to see some of the downside here.
despite the fact that African farmers have a ways to go in adopting new farming technologies and methods#ess than 5 percent of land in the sub-Sahara is irrigated,
If farmers adopt proven technologies in the coming years, as many believe they will, #oethey will not feed only their own people
an expert on technology and development who teaches at Harvard s Kennedy School of Government.
I paid special attention to the rollout of new technologies, the role of urbanization in altering agro-business dynamics,
The flood of well-educated people going into farming has sped up the absorption of new technology across the board.
and Israeli technology, have taken root in Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Tens of thousands of workers carefully harvest the flowers,
Experts expect even greater expansion through improved technology. The Gates foundation is funding tens of millions of dollars of cassava-related research.
Cowpeas#nutritious crop known as black-eyed peas in the American south#lso show how much can be done with even basic technology.
and harvesting techniques, information technology is greatly enhancing farmer productivity and allowing coordination at an unprecedented scale.
and Malawi, has reached an estimated 40 million listeners. 6. African farms use the least amount of modern technology in the world,
so any uptick in usage could lead to enormous gains Two of the most important technologies in farming are irrigation and fertilizers,
Once these two proven techniques become more widespread, as they have nearly everywhere else, African farm productivity will soar.
What about more advanced technology? For years African governments opposed the genetic modification of crops,
which were accomplished using simple technologies to combat desertification. He describes such efforts by farmers in parched Niger as#oethe biggest environmental transformation in Africa.#
is subject to the principles of engineering. And for the first time in a half century, the question is no longer
the convergence of digital technology that allows farmers to apply just the right amount of fertilizer and water on their fields.
Now measuring and application technologies from automatic sprayers to satellites are so cheap and effective,
and technology to supply the goods we need.##In Idaho, the nonprofit is collaborating with Millercoors to support farmers who upgrade their irrigation systems to new precision agriculture systems.
Yet the central technology in this effortvariable rate irrigation (VRI) wasn t a commercial endeavor delivered directly to farmers clamoring for the technology.
and local and state government agencies sought to commercialize the VRI technology in the private sector.
the technology has bestowed most of its benefits on agribusiness#almost always through crops modified to withstand weed-killing chemicals
Other next-generation crops will be created using advanced genetic manipulation techniques that allow high-precision editing of the plant s own genome.
says Philip Bereano, who studies the political and social aspects of new technologies at the University of Washington, Seattle.
#Nevertheless, most GM-organism researchers seem convinced that the worst of the technology s problems are over,
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