Emerging technologies Flashcards
New technologies?
1) Artificial intelligence
2) Quantum cryptography
3) Vision enhancement
4) 3D imaging
5) Robotics
3 areas where AI is being developed
Game playing
Robotics
Languages
3 impacts of AI
Improved medical care
Increase personal safety
Safer transport- self parking decreases accidents
Biometrics?
Use of different body parts for identification purposes
3 Areas where biometrics are used?
In phones to unlock
In crime scene investigations to match suspects’s fingerprints with data stored in the database
In offices to allow authorized personnel to enter
3 impacts of biometrics?
Increased building security
Reduced car theft
Secure phones
3 types of robots?
Domestic
Carrier
Manufacturing
Where are robots used?
Lifting heavy objects
Exploring extreme environments
Dangerous jobs
Impacts of robots ?
Safer working environment
Loss of human jobs
Efficient manufacturing
Quantum cryptography?
A method of encrypting data. It is based on oscillating photons that produce a random sequence of 0s and 1s and is based on the laws of physics.
Impacts of quantum cryptography
Completely secure bank transfers
Completely secure voting
Completely secure communication
Computer Assisted Translation?
Where a human translator uses a software to help in a translation process
3 tools of CAT
Spell checkers- flags misspelt words
Translation memory-stores translated text
Language search engine
Impacts of CAT
More accurate documents
Multilingual society
Quicker and efficient
3D holographic imaging
When regular 2D images are made to appear 3 dimensional
