Technology: Future Trends on Society

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Technology Future Trends on Society

• Molly McCamy
• Susan Merk
• Jonathan Murray
• Kristie Paulson
• Jillian Resha

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Technology

• Discuss three major future trends
• Macro-engineering
• Nanotechnology
• Artificial and Embedded Intelligence
• Discuss Manifest, Latent and Dysfunction
  Paradigms
• Gain better knowledge of future trends
• To be open and understanding of new ideas

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Terminology

• Macro-Engineering designing and creating
  technology at an enormous scale
• composed of many parts but are able to function
  as one
• Nanotechnology Measurement of any technology
  smaller than 1000 nanometers
• Artificial and Embedded Intelligence Software
  programs that enable computers to perform tasks
  normally requiring human thought processes

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Macro-engineering

• Maglev Supertrain
• Run by magnets
• 321 mph
• Quiet, uses little energy

• Air-Bus A3XX
• 1st twin deck airplane
• 656 passenger
• costs 200 million
• contains sports facilities, work places, private
  cabins

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Macro-engineering

• Freedom Ship
• City on water
• 50,000 people
• 1 mile long, 25 stories high
• Costs 9 billion

• Millennium Tower
• 2755 ft. High
• 170 stories
• Costs 10 billion

• Gibraltar Bridge
• 15 billion
• 9 miles
• 3000 ft. tall

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Macro-engineering

• Alice Cities
• Built underground
• contain housing, shopping malls, hotels,
• and housing
• 3 Gorges Dam
• Largest hydroelectric dam
• Provide hydroelectric power
• Clean
• Wont harm environment
• Artificial Islands
• 260 ft. above the oceans surface
• 9 square miles
• 1 million people

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Nanotechnology

• Measurement of technology smaller than 1000
  nanometers
• Technology of creating man-made arrangements of
  atoms
• Deals with creating objects at an atomic level
  one atom at a time
• Cure sickness, build environmentally safe objects
• Could have a negative effect on terrorism, could
  put people out of jobs

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Nanotechnology
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Artificial and Embedded Intelligence

• Artificial Intelligence essentially software
  that enables computers to imitate the human
  thought process
• Embedded Intelligence user friendly devices
  which contain intelligent microprocessor
  technology
• increased and improved performance, integration,
  client services, networking
• computers could help reduce or alleviate
  misinterpretations caused by differences in
  culture and language

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Social Exchange Paradigm
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Social Conflict
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Structural Functional
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Structural Functional (cont)