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Electricity and heat generation, transmutation of nuclear waste stockpiles from traditional reactors Gravity battery: Small-scale examples Energy storage Home fuel cell: Research, commercialization [58] [59] [60] Off-the-grid, producing electricity in using an environmentally friendly fuel as a backup during long term power failures.
Future technology-related topics include: Emerging technologies , technologies that are perceived as capable of changing the status quo Futures studies (also called futurology), the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them
This reflects E. F. Schumacher's concept of "intermediate technology," i.e., technology which is significantly more effective and expensive than traditional methods, but still an order of magnitude (10 times) cheaper than developed world technology. Key examples are: the Malian peanut sheller; the fonio husking machine; the screenless hammer mill
It can be defined as either the most complex or the newest technology on the market. [3] The opposite of high tech is low technology, referring to simple, often traditional or mechanical technology; for example, a slide rule is a low-tech calculating device. [4] [5] [6] When high tech becomes old, it becomes low tech, for example vacuum tube ...
Generation Alpha, the youngest generation, born between 2010 and 2024, quickly emerged as an influential demographic, one poised to shape society like never before. Described by experts as "mini ...
An example of the former was the gradual roll-out of DVD (digital video disc) as a development intended to follow on from the previous optical technology compact disc. By contrast, disruptive technologies are those where a new method replaces the previous technology and makes it redundant, for example, the replacement of horse-drawn carriages ...
Technological change (TC) or technological development is the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes. [1] [2] In essence, technological change covers the invention of technologies (including processes) and their commercialization or release as open source via research and development (producing emerging technologies), the continual improvement of ...
Another twentysomething, Micheal, a 27-year-old content creator, explained to the outlet: “I don’t LMAO. It’s just not what I do.” He continued, “I associate LMAO with millennial humor.