Seven major trends in the field of high technologies which we change

Manufacturing is dirty, boring and outdated. It's a slow industry, stuck in the past, and its development question of new technology from Silicon valley. And stereotypes — it's funny and... wrong. Let's not forget that manufacturing, the industry that brought us into the modern era. While many people dream of robots from science fiction, manufacturers they are made and used for useful things. While the headlines flashed on 3D printers, manufacturers prototypically with them for decades. Although information technology is a source of the latest revolutions, the manufacturing — is a source of power. Will not chip manufacturers — will not chip.

Production can be high-tech and low-tech. Dirty solution in some areas are spotlessly clean in others. Assembly line obsolete, but obsolete and robotic manipulators. What's next? Manufacturing is changing, but when was that news?

Important only the pace of change.

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You can use artificial intelligence, as Google, Facebook and Amazon

Yevgenia Zavalishina, CEO of Yandex Data Factory, said that the biggest misconception on the subject AI that is a futuristic thing. Actually no. And it's not just in the technical giants. The same software for machine learning that helps you find, watch and buy whatever you want online, you may be placed in other contexts, for example, for the analysis of raw plant-specific data for savings.

Zavalishina stated that the software for machine learning like this quite affordable and sometimes even free.

"These systems have been working in favor. But in 2017, these technologies have become so affordable that you don't even need overqualified people to use them," says Neil Jacobstein, a student of artificial intelligence and robotics Singularity University. "These technologies can be applied to a wide range of issues in the industry, from design to quality control, from production to customer service... Now there is a really good results".

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Robots smart enough not to kill you

Robots for a long time in production but they always have been tightly controlled environment for work and candidates of science for programming. Robotics legend Rodney Brooks showed Sawyer the robot from Rethink Robotics, showing that it can program to anyone.

And thanks to cheap equipment for 3D-modeling and the constantly improving software, robots are also becoming smart, light and sufficiently knowledgeable to work with people, not harm them. The next step is not the end for the workers, this cooperation between the best robots and the best people.

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3D printing is ready for mass production

Anyone who knows about 3D printing, once dreamed to print anything, anywhere, anytime. But the cost, quality, speed has always been a problem. With the emergence of solutions from Carbon and others, 3D printing is finally coming into mass production. In areas where it will be possible final 3D-printing, Assembly lines simply disappear. That is, we will immediately move from the design stage to the stages of a product, without rebuilding the infrastructure and tools for each new product.

"a 3D printer is a programmable factory," says the futurist, hacker and inventor Pablos Holman. "He doesn't care what to do. He doesn't care whether to do one thing twice. And this is his strength. Just use your imagination".

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Augmented reality will allow us to design and build

Many people have heard about virtual reality or even tried to be friends with her. On the market there are commercial devices for gaming in VR, but also a lot of talk about when it will be available in large quantities.

Just behind virtual reality is augmented reality. And if the first is fully immersed, augmented reality imposes a digital world over the real world. This is a more difficult problem technically, but it and more applications. In the world of advanced augmented reality, we will use small wearable device to interact with computers like Tony stark from "Iron man".

In production, this means that developers will be able to draw a two-dimensional simulation programs to faster and more intuitive to work with three-dimensional objects on the table. Workers in the factories will get more real-time data about machines and processes, either directly instructions for the repair and production.

"the Whole world will be our display, we'll be in augmented reality constantly," says ray Kurzweil. "I think this is the future of interaction with technology. They will become invisible part of our world."

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We're reprogramming biology for industrial production

Very soon the bio will become a byword, says Raymond McCauley, the head of the digital Department of biology at Singularity University.

We learn to reprogram simple organisms in sensors and miniature factory for the production of wires, fuel and food, he says. "Through the changes will be not only metal. Most of the materials and the principles of their production will have to be reviewed because of the breakthroughs in the field of bioengineering".

And there is progress. Algae with modified genes produce biofuels, and the modified bacteria are spun spider web. But as tools for bio-industries get cheaper and more powerful every year, scaling remains a problem.

How to keep rhythm? Need more innovation

Technology is evolving rapidly. How to stay aboard this massive ship today? Once the old companies in the top 500 of the most famous was 50-60 years of life. In our days, that number is closer to 20. Small startups in software development can break the life of the giant. Innovation has become a critical tool for survival.

Jeff TAFF, head of digital transformation at Monitor Deloitte and his team presented a "Golden ratio for innovation" five years ago. They are advised to spend 70% of innovation resources in the core, 20% adjacent to the core region and 10% to transformational space. This should not be a rule carved in stone, but rather an occasion for dialogue: where and how should we promote innovation? Today the short answer is: the more and the farther from the comfort zone, the better.

TAFF believes that its relationship has long been obsolete.

"70-20-10 no longer apply, and I have no idea what will be today's numbers," he says. "I think close to 50-30-20 or 50-25-25 even".

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Speed is increasing. Can you keep up?

The Speed with which technology creates and destroys jobs, can not help but surprise. Advanced AI and robots promise to increase automation. Automation has historically been cut, simple and crude work in favor of more complex and require qualification.

"People say, well, what are the new jobs? I say: I don't know, we have not yet invented," says Kurzweil. "This question has no single political answer."

The Transition from one skill to another will be difficult and will be held by very many. Previously, these transitions were very difficult. Peter Diamandis worried that people won't have enough time to adapt and to keep pace with the changes. They come too fast.

"In 1810 in the USA was 84% of the farmers. Today only 2%. Giant change on the labour market. But it went through a long period of time," says Diamandis. What if we lose a giant in the industry of labor in just 20 years? We will see social and political unrest on a large scale.

Diamandis notes that a universal basic income could facilitate this transition. And although we can't evade upcoming problems, we can't allow them to blind us positive and useful changes that will take place in parallel with them.

"Son or daughter of a billionaire in new York or a son or daughter of the poorest farm in Kenya will have access to the same education that they provide to AI to the same level of health that will provide the AI, or robots. We demonetizing everything that is now necessary for life," he says.

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