Emerging Technology & Innovation
Analysis of Technology This week's topic from ITEC was emerging technology and interestingly, a look at technology throughout history, some predictions that had weight and were fully realized after some time, and some predictions that completely missed the mark. One of my favorite examples from this week was the future of flying cars and how it was fantasized and predicted to overtake ground vehicles. Of course that was first predicted in the early 1900's by Henry Ford, it is now 2023 and to no one's surprise, flying cars are nowhere to be found amongst the common folk. Of course what seems like a utopic vision, and even a pipe-dream, now to me seems like a total over-complication. It seems kind of crazy to me that there was an expectation for flying cars to be an everyday vehicle when a full automobile industry wasn't even fully realized. The first freeway was built in 1940, and in 1954, most cars didn't even have seatbelts. 1998 was the first year where all futur