2016 predictions
The Future Hunters: These 4 Trends Will Transform The Digital Frontier in 2016
From robotics and artificial intelligence to virtual reality, digital innovation is poised to accelerate this year.
Change has always been a constant, but it is now happening faster than ever before. The exponential pace of technological innovation is leading to a world of templosion, in which very large things happen in increasingly compressed amounts of time. The impacts of this acceleration — and digital transformation — will be felt everywhere.
Below are four areas where this era of templosion will play out this year:
Erica Orange: How 4D Printing and Biohacking Can Help Answer the Question, What Are We?
Innovations in 3D printing, wearable technology and Big Data are enabling a greater understanding of our own biology. Yet with opportunities come new challenges.
Who are we? That unresolvable question may increasingly give way to “What are we?” This is because we are fast entering a future where our biology is becoming more self-defined, assembled, manufactured and unique. Great disruptive technologies, in combination with enormous advancements in science, are shifting our understanding of our own biology. We are: