Cars and future technology involved
Human race has undergone a tremendous transition in the past century with computers breaking every limit and making every dream a possibility. The flexibility of this micro processor driven machine has brought an enormous technological advancement in all the fields that we can imagine off. No wonder that it also has brought plenty of advancement to the automobile industry which stands a pioneer for technological advancement.
Starting from steam powered vehicles to the present hydrogen cell cars; sky is the limit for automobile manufacturers. However, automobile industry underwent some bad times between the years from 1960 to 1980, where all the car manufacturers used the same technology, almost the same designs. They just concentrated on making money from their new cars without investing anything in to research and development. This attitude of the manufacturers slowed down the technological advancements in the new cars and it even came to a halt at some point of time. Computers, with a globalized market turned the table for the new car companies and it revolutionized the automobile industry.
Now, new car companies have realized that by investing a considerable amount in the development of future technologies, they will be able to bring stability to their business model which automatically increases the profit of these new car manufacturers.
Each and every automobile company who manufactures new cars and services used cards is working towards one common goal, it is to develop a car that is eco friendly, which is more efficient, and which is totally safe.
As a result of hard work done by the research and development teams of every automobile company, we already have a glimpse of some wonderful inventions that can be used for both used cars and new cars.
Below given are the details of some real inventions that will be imparted in our future cars and also in the used cars that we have now.
Regenerative breaking is a technology where in the wasted heat , which is produced while applying breaks is again in converted to usable energy, thus by increasing the energy efficiency of the vehicle . This technology can be imparted in both new and used cars. Researchers at the Brunel University( United Kingdom) has developed a hybrid engine which compresses the air, converts it to a form which the engine can use, thus by reducing the fuel consumption of the engine to 30%.This technology can be imparted to both new and used cars. Automobile giant BMW has developed a technology called the “Turbo steamer” which helps to harness the heat expelled by the internal combustion engines and generates mechanical energy from it. This technology can mostly be imparted in the new cars than the used cars. Carbon Nano tubes will replace steel, which makes the car safer and more energy efficient. This technology can only be used in the new cars. Nano technology will also be imparted in the engines of the car, giving the driver options to change the engine type. With some basic alterations, this technology can be adopted in the used cars also.
These are tip of the iceberg that automobile industry is about to unravel in the future. With new technology coming up every day, automobile giants are getting set to change the conventional transport system throughout the world, forever!
Nigel Daura
http://www.deal-autos.co.uk/
The Future of Technology (Economist)
From the industrial revolution to the railway age, through the era of electrification, the advent of mass production and finally to the information age, the same pattern keeps repeating itself. An exciting, vibrant phase of innovation and financial speculation is followed by a crash, after which begins a longer, more stately period during which the technology is actually deployed properly. This book examines the post-technology era, drawing on the best writing on technology that has
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In this volume edited by Tom Standage, the material is carefully organized and presented within three Parts. As “the revolutionary ideas of a few years ago have now become conventional wisdom,” the focus in Part 1 is on the implications of widespread adoption of technology. “The growing ubiquity and sophistication of consumer-electronics devices is the topic of the second part of the book.” That is to say, the emergence of “digital lifestyle” within a “digital home.” Once information technology has percolated into everything (e.g. wireless sunglasses that double as head phones to radio-tagged cereal boxes), “what new technology will lead the next great phase of transformation, disruption, and creativity?” Then in Part 3, the focus is on various new “contenders” such as biotechnology, energy technology, and nanotechnology.
All of this material consists of various surveys and articles which appeared in The Economist between 2002 and 2005. “Collectively they illustrate how the technology industry is changing, how technology continues to affect many areas of everyday life – and, looking further ahead, how researchers in several promising fields are developing the innovations that seem most likely to constitute the future of technology.” It is important to keep in mind that the value of survey results — such as those generated by four surveys and provided in Part 1 (“Coming of age,” “Make it simple,” and “A world of work”) — is derived from what they suggest about what Joel Barker characterizes as “paradigm shifts.” That is, the survey responses indicate both emerging and apparent trends and patterns.
Tom Standage and his seven collaborators are to be commended on the precision of their thinking and the eloquence of their writing. I especially appreciate, also, their caution when sharing their thoughts about the future of technology. No doubt they recall (as Standage does in the Foreword) “the hype of the internet boom [which contained] a kernel of truth, although harnessing the new technology proved harder and is taking longer that the cheerleaders of the 1990s anticipated.”
Those who share my high regard for this volume are urged to check out Kellogg on Technology & Innovation co-edited by Ranjay Gulati, Mohanbir Sawhney, and Anthony Paoni. Also, Seeing What’s Next co-authored by Clayton C. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, and Erik A. Roth, Geoffrey A. Moore’s Dealing with Darwin, and Constantinos C. Markides and Paul A. Geroski’s Fast Second.
Review by W Boudville for The Future of Technology (Economist)
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The book is a compendium of articles from the Economist magazine, taken from the years 2001-5. Readers of the magazine may well recognise several or even most of the writings. They are arranged in several themes. What has been omitted is the dates in which each article originally appeared. Perhaps this should have been added.
Anyhow, the articles have the Economist’s typical insightful musings; here on technology trends. During what is now universally acknowledged as the aftermath of the dot-com era. Most of the discussion revolves around the Web.
If you read the articles now in 2006 or later, what is striking is that they are not quite in what some are calling the Web 2.0 era. Web Services get a mention in the book. But little about developments in 2005 and 2006. Not surprising, given the constraints of book publishing. Maybe, just maybe, we can already see the flowerings of such things as mashups, and sites like MySpace, that might take us into the next phase of the Web.
The book can be useful, right now, if you are trying to anticipate or bring about new ideas. But also a few years hence, as a retrospective. When we can assess how accurate the musings were.