Social Credit Algorithm
The social credit algorithms use facial recognition and other advanced biometrics to identify a person and retrieve data about that person from social media and other digital profiles.
The take away is that these technologies are even applied to schools at a large scale. The expressions of students at particular intervals are comprehended by machines to conclude if a class is satisfied with the way of teaching of the instructor.
For Example, if a concept told by the teacher is not understood by the students, then, an expression of frown or disappointment noted from the faces of students concludes that the way of teaching has to be changed. And all of this is totally automatic and performed by cameras and complex algorithms without the need of human intervention.
Social credit algorithms is being employed by the Chinese government at a huge scale and is expected to be fully functional by the year end. Although, the Chinese are using it in wrong ways. The behaviour of masses of population is used to rank them based on a “social credits” and they are accordingly denied services if their credits are low. They are either denied of taking flights, or taking admission in schools or even stripped off of basic services like internet.
Well, I think now that it’s a plus point of being a citizen of a democratic country, they don’t strip you of internet services. :p.
Autonomous cars
The days of rushing around in your car and completing your work even after being exhausted by running errands all day are now about to vanish! The buzz of autonomous cars is slowly taking over the market year by year. 2019 is considered as the year when autonomous cars can finally be expanded to a larger general public after so many setbacks. The advances in the field is about to give cars the ability and reasoning of a human being.
Researchers at MIT have developed a system that uses simple maps and visual data to enable driverless cars to navigate routes in new, complex environments. It even has the ability to compare the mismatches between the virtual maps and real features of the road, determining if its position, sensors, or mapping are incorrect, in order to correct the car's course.
Intel’s Mobileye proposes a mathematical model — the Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) — it describes as a common sense approach to on the road decision-making that codifies good habits like giving other cars the right of way. According to the Researchers at Cambridge University, the autonomous cars that compete with each other can speed up traffic up-to 35%.
Test drives are constantly carried out to across the US to apprehend and improve upon the designs of these cars giving models much better than the previous ones.
IoT in human Body
This year we will see more and more experiments where Internet of Things devices enter the human body for diagnosis and for treatment. The movie superheroes like Ant-Man and Doctor Strange will not be so strange to the people once this tech hits the market.
Soon we will see an increase in instances where IoT enters the body.
Biological IOT devices can detect diseases, instruct body parts by releasing desired chemicals and can even cure deadly diseases and body paralysis by informing and apprehending pre-disease symptoms.
Regularly high or low body temperature at a particular duration of time or an event affects our body function which then affects daily routines and creates health issues, which may need medication. The Internet of things (IoT) and the mobile technologies make it easier to monitor the patients’ health conditions by sharing their information with health care teams such as doctors, nurses, and specialists every second.
Sensors can be implanted into the human body even allowing to take over the brain or possibly, for now, to make a backup of the human memories by interacting with the neural networks. Loss of memory can thus be compensated.
This may even give rise to something called bio-hacking. Minds can be hacked just as traditional computer system making the person a slave to the hacker. The body parts of the hacked can then be controlled just like the arms of a robot.
That’s cool, right? Or…. Evil?
For example, an experiment carried out on a monkey with an implanted brain was able to send signals to his spine using a computer linked to his neural signals.
Fake News detectors
Every year, loads of productive time of entrepreneurs, business people and general public is wasted because of fake news articles and multimedia. These generally attract users through click baits and waste a lot of important time and energy. Even, whatsapp announced that it deletes around 2 million accounts every month to prevent the spread of fake news.
Built and under research by MIT researchers, fake news detectors are built to employ the principles of data mining and machine learning to dug out patterns from a gazillion examples of fake news articles. Patterns are drawn for real and fake news and the problem is effectively tackled.
Foldable phones
Now, who doesn’t know about the Samsung galaxy foldable phones? It looks like 2019 is going to be the year of the foldable phones, and we've already seen some stunning handsets appear –like the Samsung Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X. Even after being foldable, these handsets offer high end specs in terms of memory and processor capabilities.
Isn’t it cool when you can fit a 7.5 inch device in your pocket?
That’s what these phones have to offer. Samsung is even planning on introducing the capability of running three apps simultaneously on the folded sides of the phones. With tech giants like Motorola, Huawei, Samsung and Lg in the race, these phones will soon gain a huge market in the upcoming months. The display is going to be responsive as per the screen size of the folded screen.
With all these in the basket, its actually time to say goodbye to our rigid handsets because the future has something flexible to offer!
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As we say that change is the only constant, this implies for your personal life and for technology as well.
Technological development works on the Law of Acceleration, which means that the more advanced the technology is the faster it tends to grow. Here are some of the very trending technologies that are acquiring huge markets in 2019 and will make it big for the future:
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence has already created a lot of buzz in recent years, and it continues to be a trend because of its aggressive involvement in every sector of our society and into our lives.
In 1956, few scientist and mathematicians gathered for a meeting at Dartmouth College. A discussion was already taking place about a ‘strange new discipline’ so new that it didn’t even have a name. The ‘Dartmouth-workshop’ which was based on the theory of building machines that could think, kicked off the decades-long quest for Artificial Intelligence.
Currently, ‘narrow’ or basic AIs are everywhere, embedded into games such as Pokemon Go to your Amazon recommendations and weather forecast systems. We are moving forward towards making artificial general intelligence that has the power to outperform humans.
Still, talking about the ‘latest trends,’ AI has started to set its own place in our daily lives. Devices like Alexa and Siri are just a few examples of how artificial intelligence is setting up a trend among people of all ages. Isn’t it weird that we talk to artificial beings and get a valid reply in return! What's weirder is when you people flirt with them virtual beings.
Blockchain
Next to AI, Blockchain is the most emerging technology in recent years. Also considered as the ‘new Internet,’ Blockchain is a distributed ledger of economic transactions that are programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value.
Blockchain focuses on the decentralization of the whole network which means that there is no third party involved in keeping a record of your data. This database, instead of being stored in a single location, instead are truly public and easily verifiable. As there is no centralized version of this information, it makes it impossible for hackers to corrupt it.
Cryptocurrencies, virtual tokens, digital assets, smart contracts, and initial coin offerings are some of the concepts that reply on Blockchain technology. Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency to hit the headlines, and it is what relates to the masses when Blockchain or fintech comes up.
We all conduct our lives online — online banking, social media, shopping, apps, and other online services. The core functions of the government and the country’s economy are being executed on the Internet.
Blockchain will slowly but surely grow its presence in the International market.
Virtual and Augmented Reality
AR and VR are hot topics in the technology world and has already become mainstream in everyday life. People working in the field of marketing and advertising are going to receive great help through this technology.
To understand the terms better, Virtual Reality or VR refers to complete immersion experience that shuts out the physical world. It is an artificial environment created with software and presented in such a way that the user believes it to be real.
Augmented Reality technology is a technology where the images from the real or physical world are augmented by computer-generated information thus providing a composite view. It provides a computerized image of the real world and other virtual beings can be added into the physical environment. A fine example of this technology is the game Pokemon Go.
These will only get better with the coming years and will be used in different sectors as well as in everyday lives.
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