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These Technologies will have an effect on everybody. It will affect politics and the economy, improve medicine and even influence culture. Some are new at the moment and some are developing at the moment and will develop further through decades to come. These Technologies all have the possibility of staying power. Technology now and developing for the future:

Medicine: Reversing Paralysis; remarkable progress has been made to restore freedom of movement, caused by spinal cord injuries, through using brain implants. This technology will be available to all in 10 to 15 years time.
Photography: Spherical images made by Inexpensive Cameras; are opening a whole new world of taking pictures and sharing stories. An ecological researcher needed a system to broadcast images continuously to collect data and devised a camera that can create 360-degree pictures. This technology is available now for all to take their 360-degree selfies, etc.
Education: Computers are experimenting and figuring out how to perform things a programmer would be able to teach them. This approach is known as, “Reinforcement Learning”, and is not done through programming in a conventional way, at all. The computer is learning to perform certain tasks, etc. simply by practicing. This technology will be freely available in 1 to 2 years time.
Economy: Self-Driving Trucks; Tractor-trailers without drivers might soon be passing you on the highway. Many technical problems still exist, but it is claimed that self-driving trucks will be less costly as well as safer. Availability will come in about 5 to 10 years time. This is also the time in which the world can think about what this technology will mean for the millions of truck drivers that will lose their jobs.
Environment: Hot Solar Cells; converting sunlight into heat firstly and then turning it back into light-energy, focused in beams, can dramatically increase efficiency. This smaller solar device, smaller than the usual solar panels, can absorb more energy and could create continuous, cheap power. This will only become available within 10 to 15 years from now.

Most of these technologies are future technologies, still in the developing phases, but it is good to know about them. It will give time to consider the influences, good or bad, that it might have on the world and its inhabitants.

Introducing new technological changes into your business or organization will present a whole different set of challenges towards shepherding that innovation into a routine action to all personnel. The easiest way might be to include all probable users in the research on user needs and their individual preferences and then together find a way to implement the new technology that will be acceptable and workable for all

Difficulties you might come across when Introducing New Technology in the Workplace, and how to solve these Problems.

Resistance to Change: Resistance often grows out of misinformation, possibly overlooked issues or mistakes made through ignorance of the change. This can mostly be countered by including all personnel involved or influenced by the change, through providing information, sharing knowledge and giving a clear view of what the benefits of the changes will be.
Personal Benefit: New Innovations need to offer an advantage, an obviously clear advantage, over whatever it is intended to replace. It is of great importance to make clear the potential benefits and apparent rewards. Also, promote the need to learn new skills in order to increase the value of work and greater recognition.
Gather Information from current work systems: Discuss current problems and difficulties with each department new technology will be implemented. Find out the times of day systems run, the sequence of work done, the choices that are made by personnel daily and how the changes will affect everyone and the work they are responsible for. This will enable you to spot probable problem areas and where more training or knowledge will be needed. Always run a clear and open change campaign to make everyone feel included.

When all is said and done, the new technology changes in your business, company or workplace, will make processes faster, and much easier to ‘file’ and keep information. Your business can run smoother, more cost effective and less time-consuming. In other words; “More Efficient”.

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Month: September 2017

These 5 Breakthrough Technologies will Influence the life of everyone in 2017

How can you maximize your Businesses Efficiency through the use of Technology?