The best technology in 2016 according to Layfhakera
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Artificial intelligence and neural network
Trainees and students intelligent system - one of the most controversial areas of modern technology. Artificial intelligence - it sounds cool, but that will make super-intelligence, if you give him freedom? Whether he decides people's problems or considers themselves people problem?
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Perhaps someday artificial intelligence psihanot and destroy all of us, but so far everything is going well. Neural networks have successfully addressed some of the everyday problems of the people associated with the organization and selection.
Google uses neural network for games, intelligent sorting notes, create playlists, improve the quality of the translation, and its example is followed by other companies.
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Neural networks have shown themselves perfectly in the artistic treatment of photos and videos, and even Prisma was the best Android-application in 2016.
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reusable rocket
Elon Musk - a true genius of our time. The man who created PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX.
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Each of the undertakings mask worthy of the best technology in history, created for the benefit of mankind, but this time we will focus on missiles and space.
One of the key goals of SpaceX is to create a reliable reusable launch vehicles that deliver the goods, and then returned to Earth safe and sound, ready for refueling and the next departure.
This approach greatly reduces the cost of space transportation, and it is thanks to our descendants SpaceX will build its new home on Mars.
Gigabit Internet from space
SpaceX - this is only the transport system. It is obvious that it was created to send something into space. What exactly? In addition to the colonization of the Red Planet, Elon Musk wants to give to humanity vsedostupnosti Gigabit Internet.
With SpaceX rocket four and a half thousand satellites are put into orbit, that is three times larger than the total number of all active satellites currently. Together, they provide high speed internet access, each square centimeter of the Earth.
To finance the project immediately joined Google and several other progressive companies-giants.
What will happen to the greedy mobile operators and no less greedy providers of Internet access? What's the difference. More importantly, we all finally get the affordable internet at unprecedented speed.
unmanned car
Six years ago, the news of the creation of unmanned vehicles Google once seemed dubious undertaking, and this year the first unmanned taxis were running. Like it or not the drivers, but for the future of drones, and living people better not to get behind the wheel. The robot does not drive drunk, do not fall asleep at the wheel, not a scorcher, not in a hurry, did not violate traffic rules.
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Alternative energy sources
Technology for obtaining energy from water, wind and sunlight have long been known, but right now we are witnessing a rapid shift from theory to practice. All progressive countries of the world are actively working to ensure that alternative sources of energy were the main, traditional. Complete failure from burning petroleum products, coal, gas, and possibly the energy decay atom, with transition to completely clean production.
In the United States build solar power stations in the gigawatts, which is comparable with modern nuclear power reactor. People put solar panels on the roofs of houses. Developed and launched into production availability of personal power generators.
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Sneakers with automatic lacing
Outstanding invention need not be massive, especially if it deals with contemporary everyday problems. Madden constantly unties shoelaces? Do not want to mess around with knots? Nike decided to question radically, creating shoes with automatic lacing.
Chinese offer its own version of the smart shoe: without avtoshnurovki, but connecting to the smartphone and much more modest price.
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Tech equipment - this is an extremely promising area of research that will make people's lives better. Imagine a smart jacket, which is not afraid of fire and water, if necessary, will dry itself and adjust the temperature based on the biometric data of human and environmental data.
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Electronics, which does not need to be charged
Everything portable electronic gadgets, even the smallest, need a power supply. They somehow need a tiny battery or battery, but soon everything will change.
Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a technology that allows you to convert to existing energy waves generated by the Wi-Fi-routers and such universally common technique. The principle of operation is similar to sending signals mirror reflecting the sunlight.
Obviously, the wave energy is not enough for high-power devices, but all kinds of smart watches, fitness bracelets, smart home sensors and even a compact video cameras will soon be sold without battery inside.
NFC, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and fingerprint payment
In the US and some other countries, Apple Pay has been recognized as one of the best technologies in 2014-2015, but in Russia the "apple" payment system came more recently. Now iPhone and Apple Watch owners can use their gadgets for payment of goods and services, abandoning archaic papers and bank cards.
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Samsung also introduced its payment system. Samsung Pay differs from others in that not only supports the NFC, but imitation of a credit card with a magnetic strip. Such legacy terminals, unlike the newer with the NFC, installed virtually anywhere, which means that owners of the Samsung smartphone will be able to pay for purchases in more places.
Android users and cardholders with NFC contactless payment is available for a long time, but the arrival of a more thoughtful, universal, unified, integrated system-level Technology certainly contribute to further improve and refine the process purchases with Android-devices, as well as more active introduction of NFC-terminals in shops and shopping networks.
However, payment via smartphone or hours - this is yesterday. Future payments for fingerprinting technology, which is enough to use fingerprints. In Russia, such a system is now being tested by Sberbank.
A virtual reality
VR literally everywhere. Manufacturers of TVs, gaming consoles, accessories for computer, smartphone, developers of operating systems, applications, gaming services - all are actively promoting the technology.
Virtual reality does provide a new level of sensations and maximum immersion, but its scope goes far beyond entertainment. You've probably seen the tutorial Railways, which uses VR to recreate various situations on the railway and mining personnel actions.
It is highly probable that in the near future, we will study and work in systems that combine virtual and augmented reality, and concepts such as "monitor" and "screen" will be forgotten.
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Superrasteniya, genomic medicine and immune Engineering
The term "GMO" has become one of the major horror stories to illiterate people around the world. Fear of the new and the unknown spawned hysteria of such magnitude that in some countries, including in Russia, banned the cultivation and breeding of genetically modified plants and animals, if this is not done for scientific purposes. Labeling "Contains GMO" placed on bottles with water, and packages with salt.
But in a normal state, genetic engineering continues to evolve. Technology called CRISPR allows unmatched accuracy modify the genomes of organisms, such as plants, adding them to the desired properties and eliminating unnecessary.
Imagine wheat, tomatoes, potatoes, apples, and other important cultural and simply delicious, are not afraid of diseases and parasites, able to survive drought, provide more useful product, further enriched with the necessary substances, vitamins and microelements.
Creating an ideal crop - it is certainly nice, but how about the perfect man? Genetic engineering can cure diseases, including hereditary.
You probably know that the work of our immunity is provided by T-cells that seek and destroy any muck in the body. More precisely, almost any. Some things immunity can not afford, but appropriately modified T cells can destroy HIV, cancer and other diseases.
It is noteworthy that generated thus T cells are well controlled. They can "sleep" in the body and be included on the team - was put into the body of a special substance. To exclude random attack on the body, they can be taught to attack only upon detection of two or more of the features specific to cancer cells.
Experiments on mice and human embryos have shown the presence of genetically engineered a huge potential, but there are problems. In addition to improving technologies, which requires time and money, science faced with ignorance.
Users are able to demonstrate a complete lack of common sense. They are easy to believe in completely refuted quackery, like homeopathy, But really working, proven, unexplained medical techniques, such as vaccinationReject and demand ban.
We hope that in a year when Layfhakere released a compilation of the best technology in 2017, first in the list will be found a cure for stupidity.