Technological Future Factors
What will be possible and what not?
Technology is the practical application of knowledge in the shape of hardware (machines, products etc.) and software (processes, methods etc.) to extend human capabilities to achieve objectives. Technological future factors describe tools, instruments and methods with which people can achieve their goals in a better or easier way. According to our definition, this includes basic technologies such as lasers or nanotechnology, as well as technical-procedural methods such as e-learning. In principle, it is irrelevant whether the technology concerned is new or has already existed for some time. What in the past was the plough, the printing press, gunpowder, electricity, the railways or mechanical clocks, is now factors such as increasing computer processing capacity, nuclear power, the Internet, artificial intelligence, regenerative energies or biotechnologies such as prenatal diagnostics. They, and many other technological future factors, change people's lives.

Informatization and Internetization
Increasing Power of Information Technology
Informatization
Internetization

Virtualization and Dematerialization
Dematerialization
Tertiarization and Quartarization
Virtualization

Human-Machine Interaction
Display Innovations
Human-Machine Interfaces
Biometrization
Ergonomization

Automation and Robotization
Automation
Robotization
Sensorization
Artificial Intelligence

Knowledge Systems and New Learning
Growing Education Markets
Knowledge Systems
E-Learning

Logistics and Mobility Innovations
Logistics Innovation
Traffic Innovation
Mobilization

Process and Method Innovations
3D-Printing
Management Innovations
Bionization
Process Innovations

New Materials
Nanotechnologies
Material Innovations
Bionization
Biotechnology

Photonics
Laser Technology
Image Processing
Lighting Innovations
New Light Technologies

Advances in Medicine
Neurosciences
Medical Innovations
Biotechnology
Overcoming Human Performance Barriers

Food Innovation
Agricultural and Food Technology
Biotechnology
Increasing Food Demand

Micro and nano worlds
Microtechnologies
Nanotechnologies

Advances in Sciences
Advances in Biology
Advances in Chemistry
Advances in Physics
Advances in Mathematics
