THE LATEST IN TECHNOLOGY | the dynamics of life || 73 are used, for example, in automotive engines, or in project engineering for use in space— the future belongs to this technology. Not much time at all will pass, and people will be able to create homes and personal means of transport for themselves.
Gyroscopic transportation platforms
Developers at the Dahir Insaat company have presented a design for high transportation platforms, the balance of which is maintained by gyroscopes. The platform of such a mode of transportation is located above ordinary means of transportation, due to which it can move directly through ground traffic. This means of transportation can have various kinds of passenger compartments: both those intended for transporting a large number of passengers and those providing maximum comfort for one or a few people. Moving platforms can be used as mobile stores, salons, and museums. First aid and fire-fighting services can be placed on them as well; their specialized means of transportation won’ t lose a single precious second while traveling to the location of the emergency.
Smart glass
We may not have noticed it, but we’ re entering the glass age. Possessing the ability to become transparent or opaque, to remain solid and shatterproof, and even to behave like a sensor panel, this new kind of glass can change our homes and workplaces until they are unrecognizable. The walls in such buildings can behave like windows that control the amount of ultraviolet radiation and warmth that passes through them, which will make private houses and apartments and means of transportation far more energy-efficient. Just imagine that every surface in your home will be able to transform itself from a wall into a window, and from a window into a TV screen, simply at a wave of your hand!
Holograms
Designing homes. Playing video games. Exploring space. Building new worlds. And all in three-dimensional space. That’ s what holographic technologies promise us. Capable of supplementing our physical world with a digital one, this technology possesses enormous potential in practically all spheres known to us.
Drawing pictures in air, walking on the surface of Mars, looking into the crater of a volcano and down to the center of the Earth— holograms can send us where even magic can’ t go!
Man or machine?
Bionics can change the face of humanity. Literally. The more dependent we become on machines, the faster we draw near to the time when our capabilities will become an order of magnitude higher and wider than those we possess today.
Implantation of video cameras into our eyes, the ability to jump higher and run faster, even to control electronic devices with our thoughts— the boundary be-
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