Technological Driving Forces

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• (Idle) Computer Processing Power

• Artificial Neural Networks

• Biometrics

• Convergence of Telecommunication, Media & entertainment and Information technology

• Cost of Computer Resources

• Data-intensive Computing

• Decline of (R&D) cooperation between public and private

• Decrease in investments in R&D

• Decrease of Highly Educated Technology Workforce

• Development of 3G techonology

• Development of informatiion search technologies

• Disruptive Technology: Wireless Local Loop

• Embedded Systems

• Emergence of e-Science

• Experiences with current technical solutions

• Gaming Industry

• GPS Evolution

• Homographic Modeling

• Increasing Use of e-Commerce

• IPv6

• Low cost of Internet Connections

• Mobility

• Nanotechnology

• Need for common programming platform

• Network Bandwidth

• Network Latencies

• Parallel Computing

• Peer-to-Peer Technology

• Power Line Communication

• Preventing game piracy: Digital Rights Management

• Programming standards

• Programming standards

• Reduction of organizational and technological complexity

• Technological convergence

• The Future of TV

• The Improvements in Security of WiFi Transmissions

• The Increasing Use of Internet

• The increasing use of modchips and emulators

• The Rapid Increase in WiFi Transmission Rates

• The rise of home entertainment systems

• The TV Set becomes the Computer

• The war on Spy- and Ad ware

• Uses for the net

• Very large-scale simulation

• Virtual Communities

• Voice over Wi-Fi (Vo-Wi-Fi) will be released

• Voice-recognition system

• Whereabout the fourth generation mobile technology

• Widespread use of voice over IP (and specifically the introduction of Skype)

• WiBro

• WiMAX

• The increase of digital developing functions in a mobile phone

• The development 0f a Robot helping household affairs

• Prospect of Flexible Display

• Development of System on Display

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