In the 1980s, video phones appeared in any movie about the future, from the Jetsons to Back to the Future II. Now, forty years later, everyone has such a device in their pockets, although forty years from a futurist vision to implementation is no big deal. Today, concepts associated with popular science fiction can become reality within days or weeks. Technologies around the nearest corner prove how much we are already living in the future.
Imagine yourself sitting in the back seat of a car. You are wearing goggles through which you are watching a live football match, switching freely between onsite video cameras, viewing actions taking place on the pitch from angles inaccessible via traditional television. It goes without saying that there is nobody sitting behind the steering wheel.
5G networks alone will grant the opportunity to watch the world in virtual and augmented reality from your smartphone. We do not need to be carrying vast processing power ‘on ourselves’ because fast data transfer and very short latency will enable cloud computers to perform all necessary calculations and send the picture back to our goggles. This technology already exists. Autonomous vehicles are already being tested today in various parts of the world, with substantial success. Unmanned forklifts for handling of dispatches are being implemented in ports and warehouses. The problem of allowing autonomous cars on our roads is no longer a question of technology, but of legal reality.
Now, please imagine that you are entering a plain grocery store. There are no attendants inside. You can take any product and just leave. You will be charged automatically by a … czytaj dalej
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