The Dharma Institute released the "2021 Dharma Institute Top Ten Technology Trends", from the "Atomic Kinetic Energy", "Bit Leap" and "Scenario Changes" three chapters, respectively, to illustrate today's most cutting-edge science and technology of the top ten development trends, this article will bring the interpretation of these top ten trends, to understand the current situation of the highest-end science and technology.
Trend 1: Gallium Nitride, Silicon Carbide as the representative of the third generation of semiconductors ushered in the application of the explosion
Gallium Nitride, Silicon Carbide as the representative of the third generation of semiconductors gradually opened up the application market.
The third generation of semiconductors has high temperature, high voltage, high frequency, high power, radiation resistance and other characteristics, before because of the process reasons lead to higher production costs, it is difficult to popularize the use of the third generation of semiconductors with the development of process technology, the advantages of the third generation of semiconductors is more and more big.
Translated into our life scenarios, our cell phones, computers use the CPU, one of the raw materials is semiconductor. One of the reasons why computers or cell phones used to lag after a long time is because the current CPU is not resistant to high temperatures. After gradually iterating to the third generation of semiconductors, our intuitive feeling is that computers, cell phones, and other digital products are no longer hot and no card, and run super fast, a word, cool!
Of course, this is only a very small part of the experience improvement, the third generation of semiconductors really play a powerful scene, will be widely used in 5G base stations, new energy vehicles, ultra-high voltage, data centers and other scenes.
Trend 2: Post-"quantum hegemony" era, quantum error correction and practical advantages into the core proposition
This sentence is not easy to read, first do a translation, what is called quantum hegemony: is a word, fast!
September 20, 2019, the technology giant Google an internal research report shows that its research and development of quantum computers succeeded in 3 minutes and 20 seconds to complete the traditional computer needs 10,000 years to deal with the problem, and claimed that it is the world's first realization of "quantum hegemony".
"Post-'quantum hegemony' era", i.e., the period after the realization of quantum hegemony.
Trend 3: Carbon-based technology breakthroughs accelerate the development of flexible electronics
Flexible electronics, that is, electronic devices that can still maintain their original performance after twisting, folding, stretching, and other shape changes. For example, the future of smart wear, electronic skin, flexible display, etc., directly subverted the traditional technology hardware fixed shape limitations.
Just think about what it would be like to fold, rotate, and twist an electronic screen.
In the smart wearable scenario, even the shoes we wear can be intelligent. Traditional shoe manufacturing, because of the need to meet ergonomic constraints, must use traditional cotton, leather, fur and other materials, and the development of carbon-based technology breakthroughs may change this limitation, the direction of the smart is no longer just a cell phone, car.
Trend 4: AI to improve the efficiency of drug and vaccine development
Because of the global pandemic of the new coronavirus in 2020, almost all countries have recognized the fact that the efficiency of vaccine research and development is the efficiency of economic development, and whoever researches a vaccine first will be able to become a world leader.
AI technology has actually been very widely used in the medical field, such as medical imaging, medical record management, and so on. However, in terms of avoiding research and development, it is still at a relatively early stage of exploration. In the future, AI technology will be widely used in the development of vaccines, which will greatly improve the efficiency of research and development.
Traditional vaccine research and development, need to spend a lot of cost and time, Nature shows that the development of a new drug needs to invest 2.6 billion dollars, time-consuming 10 years, but the success rate of less than 10%.
The addition of AI will greatly reduce R&D costs, shorten R&D time, and improve R&D success rates.
Trend 5: Brain-computer interfaces to help humans transcend the limits of biology
Brain-computer interfaces, when proposed by Musk, a lot of people think that Musk is crazy, but this is not a new concept. The main approach is to implant a brain-machine chip, so that the chip assists the human brain and nervous system to process information.
This would be a huge breakthrough in the biological limits of human beings, fantasizing about what it would be like to have a single glance and not forget it. After millions of years of human development, the brain's computing power is still not as good as a chip with only 100 years of history, so what would be the experience of letting a chip help the brain?
In addition, this technology will help people with aphasia regain the ability to communicate, by reading the brain's consciousness and communicating verbally. For patients with Parkinson's, tachypnea, cerebral palsy, and other diseases that cannot be cured by current medical treatments, this technology can reduce the patient's pain by using a robotic arm to accurately complete the commands sent from the brain.
Of course, this technology has great ethical challenges, and we need to keep making tradeoffs in the future.
Trend #6: Data Processing for Autonomy and Self-Evolution
In the current data era, data governance costs companies a lot of money every year. For example, before the traditional industry does not collect too much data, such as consumer information, commodity information, industry information, etc., but with the development of technology, we all find that data is wealth, so each enterprise has stored a large amount of data for processing applications.
But this has also instead become a big part of the cost investment for businesses. For example, it takes a lot of storage space, a lot of data practitioners to manually process it for each use, and so on.
And with the development of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, this data will achieve autonomy and self-evolution, i.e., different parts of themselves to generate connections and analysis, and no longer rely on a lot of manual operations.
Doesn't that sound, well, a little scary?
Trend #7: Cloud Native Reinventing the IT Technology System
Traditional IT product development goes live and requires a very long period of time for constant development, testing, and so on. It is a waste of money and energy, and a serious waste of time, even after successful development, missed a wave of business.
If you have used outsourcing to do the website, app, public energy, should have this experience, spend more money, slow results, more problems.
But cloud native technology, will improve or even solve this problem, through technical improvements, significantly reduce the cost of trial and error, the development of new products on the line of the efficiency of a great increase, a substantial reduction in research and development costs.
The time is coming when everyone can build a website and everyone can have their own app.
Trend 8: Agriculture into the data intelligence era
Living in the new socialist China, we may rarely feel "starving" is a feeling, this is to thank the agricultural technology to make outstanding contributions to Yuan Longping and other types of scientists.
But by 2050, the world's population will be close to 10 billion, and a large number of people, including poor countries, are facing huge food problems. And the current agriculture has uneven distribution of arable land, low utilization rate, unstable yield of single product and many other factors constrain the further development of agriculture.
And in the smart era, guided by big data and artificial intelligence, agriculture will enter the wisdom stage.
Through the sensors, the integration of weather, microbial, irrigation, soil characteristics and other information, rapid analysis, to achieve a fine identification of perception. It can greatly improve the yield of agricultural crops and the utilization efficiency of arable land.
Mom no longer needs to worry about me not getting enough to eat!
Trend 9: Industrial Internet from a single point of intelligence to global intelligence
Now in the industrial field, with the iterative improvement of technology, the capacity is higher and higher, and at the same time, more and more problems are exposed. For example, in the first few years of overcapacity, resulting in a large amount of wasted resources, the competitiveness of the product declined, the more production, but the more loss of the situation.
And in the new digital era, every factory from the procurement of raw materials, the production of goods, processing and then to consumer-oriented marketing, distribution, etc., all by big data and artificial intelligence to give guidance to the decision-making, accurate capture the demand for hours, to develop their own production plans.
It saves materials, meets the demand for hours, and boosts its own profits, all in one fell swoop.
Trend 10: Intelligent operation center to become the future of the city standard
We are surely y touched by the following scenarios:
And with the development of 5G and big data, the intelligent city operation center will take on the role of the real city brain, greatly improving our life experience in the city.
The most important function of a smart city operations center is to govern the city as an organic whole. This means fundamentally treating the city as a unified system, avoiding the traditional centralized approach of solving individual problems, and instead solving the city's systemic problems as a whole.
These are the top ten technology trends released by the Dharma Institute. Do you get it?
These are the top ten technology trends released by the Dharma Institute.