FutureTech Blog
Ian Pearson of international company Futurizon in Ipswich on the technologies of the future and the economic and social backdrop.
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Drones security must be absolutely unbreakable
Drones are developing fast and many can fly themselves to any location within range. Amazon recently received permission for UK trials for drone-... Read More
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Progress in AI pushes engineers to higher status and responsibility
AI has been slowly developing for decades, but recently it has become a major news trend. Last month, a computer beat humans in an IQ test. Google... Read More
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The next 25 years: Technology prospects for 2040
25 years is a long time in technology, but already less than a third of a lifetime. For the first third, you’re stuck having to live with primitive... Read More
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Under the hood of self-driving cars
The recent start of the pilot programme to test self-driving cars on UK roads is excellent news for road safety, convenience, social inclusion and... Read More
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Engineers the high priests as futuretech brings need for sacrifices
It is always a nice start to the new year to see the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, even if only via press reports. This year, we will see... Read More
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Superconvergence now the name of the game
I give talks in almost every industry about how future technology will affect them. When I first started in the 90s, I often had audiences of CxOs... Read More
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Futurizon’s top twenty inventions for the next decade
Futurizon works with almost every industry sector. When studying the new science and technology coming over the horizon all the time, it is hard for... Read More
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What will fashion do with cheap displays?
It has taken far longer than it should, but we are now finally seeing flexible polymer displays being forged into wrist watch straps, bendy and curvy... Read More
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Are we there yet?
Like most people, I look at the world around me and see huge disconnects between cultures. There is no final straw, but seeing the recent protest in... Read More
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The future is made of Carbon
I have blogged quite often about the potential for graphene. It is a wonderful new material, and best of all is a British discovery. Graphene is a... Read More
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Brain wave or bird-brained?
The race is on to build conscious and smart computers and brain replicas.Henry Markram, director of both the Blue Brain and the Human Brain Project... Read More
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Drones: the fly on the wall could be a spy
Drones (autonomous flying vehicles), are becoming very routine equipment in warfare. They are also making market impacts in policing and sports. I... Read More
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Digital fluids, smart make-up, liquid computing and cloud nets
A long time ago it occurred to me that if ink contained small particles that could hold digital information, a signature by pen on paper could act as... Read More
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Chips everywhere. Really?
Although I am definitely an engineer underneath, I’d be the first to accept that futurology is often more of an art, distinguishing the likely from... Read More
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Roll on flexible electronics
We are not very good at keeping things simple. Computers get ever more complex and power hungry, but it doesn't need to be that way. It's always... Read More
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Microsoft v Acer v Apple v Samsung v Intel v Google v Amazon v...
It's getting interesting now, again. Not long ago, there was the bog standard PC in most homes and offices, running Windows, some Macs for those with... Read More
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“A modern railway for the 21st century”. Really?
There has been a lot of enthusiasm from train enthusiasts over the announcement of £9Bn investment over the next several years 'providing a modern... Read More
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Our kids will start off poor but retire rich
There seems to be lots to worry about at the moment, but we'll get past it. Right now, in government terms, we can choose between the awful and the... Read More
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Paradise Lost
Tim Berners Lee recently raised concern that thanks to the spread of apps for newspaper delivery, more of the web is becoming inaccessible to search... Read More
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Invoked computing is top banana
You can download emulators for 1980s games machines that will run happily on your PC. Soon, with the new visors appearing at the end of the year,... Read More