< Previous7 /9 2 /10 9 TRL /9 R YDBERG SENSORS, which are in the Prototype Stage, is the field of research concerned with developing new highly sensitive sensors that can detect the faintest changes in microwave, millimeter-wave, radio frequency (RF), and terahertz electric fields at the quantum level using small vapor-cell sensing elements. Recent breakthroughs include the development of the use of intersecting laser beams which have given researchers the ability to create Rydberg based optical lattices that can be used to simulate and examine the properties of the systems they mimic - especially properties such as high-temperature superconductivity and magnetism that are frequently too complex to simulate even on modern computer systems. Other developments include the development of new atomic or quantum communication systems, and incredibly sensitive new radio receivers. DEFINITION Rydberg Sensors are small, highly sensitive, tunable sensors capable of detecting and measuring oscillating electric fields. EXAMPLE USE CASES While there are many use cases one of the most interesting is the ability to use their sensing abilities to create new atom based audio and video communications systems, such as “Atomic TV,” which can be used in remote locations or emergency situations, as well as “Quantum Gaming” applications. Others include their use in the development of distortion free “Quantum Radios,” as well as using them to detect all manner of electromagnetic emissions and frequencies at far greater ranges than traditional receivers. FUTURE TRAJECTORY AND REPLACABILITY Over the next decade we will continue to see interest in the field accelerate, predominantly led by the defence sector and government and military grants. As we continue to see a huge amount of investment flow into quantum technologies of all kinds it’s inevitable that interest in this field will grow since it is complimentary to many of the technologies being developed - whether it’s quantum communications, computing, materials, or sensors. While Rydberg Sensors are in the Prototype Stage over the longer term they could be enhanced by advances in AI, Atomic Manufacturing, lasers, Quantum Computing, Quantum Materials, Quantum Sensors, and other technologies, however over the long term it’s unclear what it could be superseded by. MATTHEW’S RECOMMENDATION In the short to medium term I suggest companies put the technology on their radars, explore the field, establish a point of view, experiment with it, and forecast out the potential implications of the technology. 15 SECOND SUMMARY Accessibility Affordability Competition Demonstration Desirability Investment Regulation Viability 4 4 4 6 8 3 2 7 1885 1971 2021 2034 2042 STATUS PRIMARY GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AREAS IMPACT RYDBERG SENSORS STARBURST APPEARANCES: ‘23 EXPLORE MORE. Click or scan me to learn more about this emerging tech. 450311institute.com MRL4 /9 2 /10 6 TRL /9 S APPHIRE SENSORS, which are in the Prototype Stage, is the field of research concerned with developing new kinds of optical sensors that can monitor and withstand ultra extreme environments and temperatures. Recently there have been a few breakthroughs in the field including the development of single thread optical Sapphire Sensors that are capable of withstanding temperatures in excess of 2,000C and extremely high levels of radiation which means that for the first time we have a way of monitoring all manner of new metrics in ultra extreme environments in real time. DEFINITION Sapphire Sensors are single mode optical fibre sensors that can withstand extremely high temperatures. EXAMPLE USE CASES While Sapphire Sensors are still relatively nascent their primary use cases will be in situations and environments where organisations need to monitor the behaviours of assets in ultra extreme environments, such as jet engines, nuclear power plants, as well as on the skins of supersonic and hypersonic aircraft and space vehicles. FUTURE TRAJECTORY AND REPLACABILITY Over the next decade we will continue to see interest in this technology accelerate, albeit from a very low base, predominantly led by the aerospace and manufacturing sectors with government grants. While Sapphire sensors are still tricky to manufacture that problem is being solved. Meanwhile they’ve shown great potential and could play a vital role in helping monitor, optimise, and improve the performance of assets in currently hard or impossible to monitor environments. As a result, while they will likely remain niche but will likely be highly valued. While Sapphire Sensors are still in the Prototype Stage over the longer term they could be enhanced by advances in 3D and 4D Printing, AI, Materials, Nanomanufacturing, Sensors, and other technologies, however over the long term it’s unclear what they could be superseded by. MATTHEW’S RECOMMENDATION In the short to medium term I suggest companies put the technology on their radars, explore the field, establish a point of view, experiment with it, and forecast out the potential implications of the technology. 15 SECOND SUMMARY Accessibility Affordability Competition Demonstration Desirability Investment Regulation Viability 3 5 6 6 8 2 2 8 1981 1993 2022 2036 2040 STATUS PRIMARY GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AREAS IMPACT SAPPHIRE SENSORS STARBURST APPEARANCES: ‘23 EXPLORE MORE. Click or scan me to learn more about this emerging tech. 451311institute.com MRL2 /9 7 /10 4 TRL /9 S MART DUST, which is in the Concept Stage and early Prototype Stage, is the field of research concerned with trying to create tiny intelligent systems packed with sensors that can act either as individual units or as swarms to monitor events, and where necessary, perform actions and make interventions. At the moment researchers predominantly focus on one of two areas, such as the development of Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Micromotes, packed with compute, intelligence and sensors, that are thousands of times smaller than a grain of rice, or Swarm Robot platforms that enable robots with different capabilities and properties to autonomously combine together to evaluate events, and, where necessary, perform follow up tasks, and over time these two research strands will continue to merge. DEFINITION Smart Dust is a collection of Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems packed with computing power and sensors that can act individually or as a swarm to monitor events and perform actions. EXAMPLE USE CASES Today we are using Smart Dust, albeit in the form of small robots and Micromotes, to prove the theory that MEMS embedded with compute and intelligence can monitor events, from the conditions within the human brain to the health of crops, either as individual units or as larger poly-morphic swarms that can combine together and adapt their shape to aggregate and improve their monitoring capabilities, and accomplish new tasks. Other primary use cases include using them to analyse the structural integrity of buildings, improve inventory control, monitor human health and wellness, and track shipments, as well as any other use case where wireless monitoring, and intervention, would be useful. FUTURE TRAJECTORY AND REPLACABILITY Over the next decade research in the field will accelerate, and interest and investment will continue to grow, with funding primarily coming in the form of university grants. While Smart Dust is in the Concept Stage and early Prototype Stage, over the long term it will be increasingly miniaturised and enhanced by advances in Artificial Intelligence, Biological Computing, Biological Electronics, Re-Configurable Electronics, Self-Healing Electronics, DNA Robots, Molecular Robots, Nano-Machines, Soft Robots, Swarm Artificial Intelligence, and Swarm Robotics, but not replaced. MATTHEW’S RECOMMENDATION In the short to medium term I suggest companies put the technology on their radars, and re-visit it every few years until progress in the space accelerates. 15 SECOND SUMMARY Accessibility Affordability Competition Demonstration Desirability Investment Regulation Viability 4 5 5 8 6 2 2 8 1985 2007 2011 2029 2038 STATUS PRIMARY GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AREAS IMPACT SMART DUST STARBURST APPEARANCES: ‘17, ‘18, ‘19, ‘20, ‘21, ‘22, ‘23, ‘24 EXPLORE MORE. Click or scan me to learn more about this emerging tech. 452311institute.com MRL4 /9 5 /10 6 TRL /9 S PRAY ON SENSORS, which are in the Prototype Stage, is the field of research concerned with developing sensors or more importantly systems of sensors - as well as other device and material types - that you can spray onto surfaces to make those surfaces smart and give them all kinds of extra functionality and utility that would be almost impossible to do using any other method. While this technology has been in development for some time recent breakthroughs include the ability to take almost any mixture of sensors and spray them onto any kind of surface, with the upside being that those surfaces themselves have new utility, can be analysed and or monitored by those sensors systems, or those sensors become part of larger sensing networks that provide insights into all kinds of things, from a city’s air quality through to anything else that the sensors can sense. DEFINITION Spray on Sensors represent a collection of sensors, or sensing systems, that can be sprayed onto a surface to give it sensing capabilities or intelligence. EXAMPLE USE CASES One of the biggest primary uses of this technology is to use it to make dumb legacy infrastructure smart, which then means it can become part of the Internet of Things (IOT) and have great utility in Smart City applications. However, when you realise that in time you could also spray a mix of sensors onto a surface within a photovoltaic substrate things get even more interesting, because by combining different materials and sensors in this way you could spray the equivalent of a solar panel onto a building, which could then be used to generate electricity that can be wirelessly transmitted to other devices around it - while also providing other IOT functionality. FUTURE TRAJECTORY AND REPLACABILITY Over the next decade we will continue to see interest and investment in Spray on Sensors increase, led primarily by university grants. The ability to give any object intelligence and new utility just by spraying “Smart paint” onto it could transform almost all aspects of our world, especially Smart Cities, so while this technology seems niche it’s yet another that could change the world in all sorts of ways. While Spray on Sensors is still in the Prototype Stage it could be enhanced by advances in Artificial Intelligence, Materials, Polymers, Nano-Sensors and Sensors, and other technologies, however over the long term it’s unclear what it could be superseded by. MATTHEW’S RECOMMENDATION In the short to medium term I suggest companies put the technology on their radars, explore the field, and establish a point of view. 15 SECOND SUMMARY Accessibility Affordability Competition Demonstration Desirability Investment Regulation Viability 4 5 2 8 9 3 1 9 1982 2004 2017 2031 2042 STATUS PRIMARY GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AREAS IMPACT SPRAY ON SENSORS STARBURST APPEARANCES: ‘24 EXPLORE MORE. Click or scan me to learn more about this emerging tech. 453311institute.com MRL2 /9 4 /10 4 TRL /9 T ERAHERTZ IMAGING, which is in the early Prototype Stage is the field of research concerned with developing new imaging sensors and systems that harness and use terahertz radiation. Recently there have been a number of breakthroughs in the field including the development of the highest resolution terahertz cameras yet in the megapixel range as well as cameras that can see and image the internal workings of complex organic and non-organic 3D structures. DEFINITION Terahertz Imaging is the visualisation of internal structures using Terahertz radiation. EXAMPLE USE CASES Terahertz Imaging has many interesting use cases including in real time industrial imaging and liquid imaging, as well as playing a role in non-destructive testing and the ability to non- invasively scan the interior of complex and dense objects, the outputs of which can then be used for analysis or to re-create detailed 3D models of those objects for 3D Printing purposes. Meanwhile other applications include the ability to similarly analyse and image the human body in new ways and create the equivalent of live real time videos of is inner workings down to the cellular level. FUTURE TRAJECTORY AND REPLACABILITY Over the next decade interest in the field will continue to accelerate, and interest and investment will continue to grow at an accelerating rate, primarily led by organisations in the defense and healthare sector, with support from government funding and university grants. In time we will see Terahertz Imaging become much more commonplace within certain sectors, at first in the enterprise sector and then eventually in the consumer sector where it’s highly likely that it will be combined with other imaging technologies such as Hyperspectral Imaging and others. While Terahertz Imaging is in the early Prototype Stage, over the long term it will be enhanced by advances in Artificial Intelligence and Materials, but at this point in time it is not clear what it will be replaced by. MATTHEW’S RECOMMENDATION In the short to medium term I suggest companies put the technology on their radars, explore the field, establish a point of view, and re-visit it every few years until progress in this space accelerates. 15 SECOND SUMMARY Accessibility Affordability Competition Demonstration Desirability Investment Regulation Viability 3 3 2 7 8 4 2 8 1981 1998 2021 2032 2043 STATUS PRIMARY GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AREAS IMPACT TERAHERTZ IMAGING STARBURST APPEARANCES: NIL 454311institute.com EXPLORE MORE. Click or scan me to learn more about this emerging tech. MRL455311institute.comUSER INTERFACESA LL THESE powerful emerging technologies asides though you’re right - it’s all about you. The user. And from your perspective at least you likely don’t care too much about all the fancy technologies and tools organisations have had to use to design, manufacture and distribute your new products - you just care about the user experience, and this is where what’s coming could literally blow your mind especially as we dive into the wormholes that are Neural Interfaces and Telepathy. In this section you will find details of the emerging technologies that made it into this years Griffin Emerging Technology Starburst along with details of other impactful emerging technologies: 1.11K Displays 2.16K Displays 3.8k Displays 4.Affective Computing 5.AI Symbiosis 6.Augmented Reality 7.Avatars 8.Behavioural Computing 9.Bots 10.Digital Humans 11.Electrogenetic Interfaces 12.Flexible Displays 13.Generative User Interfaces 14.Gesture Control 15.Haptics 16.Hive Minds 17.Holodecks 18.Holograms 19.Holoportation 20.Hypersurfaces 21.Memory Downloading 22.Memory Transfer 23.Memory Uploading 24.Mixed Reality 25.Neural Interfaces 26.Personalised Sound 27.Screenless Display Systems 28.Spray On User Interfaces 29.Telepathy 30.Universal Translators 31.Virtual Beings 32.Virtual Reality 33.Volumetric Displays In addition to these emerging technologies there are many others that have yet to get an entry in this codex. These include, but are not limited to: 34.360 Degree Video 35.3D Voice 36.Acoustic Augmented Reality 37.Acoustic Holograms 38.Brain to Brain Interfaces 39.Brain to Machine Interfaces 40.Co-Presence 41.Conversational Interfaces 42.Digital Twins 43.Electronic Paper 44.Emotion Tracking 45.Eye Tracking 46.Far Field Microphones 47.Holographic Displays 48.Light Field Systems 49.Micro LED Displays 50.Naked Eye 3D 51.Natural Language Systems 52.Parallax Barrier Displays 53.Personal Digital Assistants 54.Pico Projectors 55.Sound On Display 56.Spatial Computing 57.Spatial Intelligence 58.Speech Recognition 59.Telepresence 60.Touch 61.Tractor Beams 62.Virtual Locations 63.Volumetric Video 457311institute.com BOOK AN EXPERT CALL9 /9 2 /10 9 TRL /9 8 K DISPLAYS, which are in the Productisation Stage, is the field of research concerned with developing ultra High Definition displays that are orders of magnitude better than traditional 4K Displays. Recent breakthroughs in the field include refining the manufacturing processes needed to make these displays to such a point that they are now commercially viable products. DEFINITION 8k Displays are screens around 8,000 pixels in width. EXAMPLE USE CASES Today we are using 8k Displays in everything from computer monitors to home TV’s. In the future the primary applications of the technology will include entertainment and gaming, as well as in situations where ultra high resolution displays are valuable, such as in fine micro-surgery, and beyond. FUTURE TRAJECTORY AND REPLACABILITY Over the next decade interest in the field will continue to accelerate, and interest and investment will continue to grow at an accelerating rate, primarily led by organisations in the Consumer Electronics sector. In time we will see the technology’s manufacturing costs continue to decrease, and quality increase, to the point where manufacturers will be able to manufacture larger and larger displays that, in time, will help ensure the technology becomes the world’s display standard. While 8k Displays are in the Productisation Stage, over the long term they will be enhanced by advances in Semiconductors, and in time they will be replaced by 11k Displays. MATTHEW’S RECOMMENDATION In the short to medium term I suggest companies put the technology on their radars, explore the field, establish a point of view, experiment with it, and forecast out the potential implications of the technology. 15 SECOND SUMMARY Accessibility Affordability Competition Demonstration Desirability Investment Regulation Viability 8 7 6 9 8 8 5 9 1993 2008 2011 2015 2035 STATUS PRIMARY GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AREAS IMPACT 8K DISPLAYS STARBURST APPEARANCES: ‘17, ‘19 EXPLORE MORE. Click or scan me to learn more about this emerging tech. 458311institute.com MRL3 /9 2 /10 5 TRL /9 1 1K DISPLAYS, which are in the early Prototype Stage, is the field of research concerned with creating Full Ultra High Definition (FUHD) displays whose resolutions are so high they have a natural 3D effect. Recent breakthroughs in the field include the development of the first 11k display prototypes, but as is common when it comes to developing new displays it will likely be a while before we see them in the stores. DEFINITION 11K Displays are Ultra High Definition screens around 11,000 pixels in width, with resolutions so high they offer a natural 3D image effect. EXAMPLE USE CASES The first prototype 11k Displays are being used to test and refine the technology. In the future the primary use of the technology will include entertainment and gaming, and situations where ultra high resolution display systems and natural 3D effects are valuable, such as in fine micro-surgery, and beyond. FUTURE TRAJECTORY AND REPLACABILITY Over the next decade interest in the field will continue to accelerate, and interest and investment will continue to grow, albeit from a low base, primarily led by organisations in the Consumer Electronics sector. In time we will see the technology mature, and as organisations refine the manufacturing process we will see costs fall and quality increase to the point where the technology becomes commercialised. While 11k Displays are in the early Prototype Stage, over the long term they will be enhanced by advances in Nanomanufacturing, Quantum Dots, and Semiconductors, but in time they will be replaced by Neural Interfaces, and Screenless Displays. MATTHEW’S RECOMMENDATION In the short to medium term I suggest companies put the technology on their radars, establish a point of view, and re- visit it every few years until progress in the space accelerates. 15 SECOND SUMMARY Accessibility Affordability Competition Demonstration Desirability Investment Regulation Viability 3 4 6 4 8 5 4 9 2002 2012 2017 2024 2050 STATUS PRIMARY GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AREAS IMPACT STARBURST APPEARANCES: ‘18, ‘19, ‘20 11K DISPLAYS EXPLORE MORE. Click or scan me to learn more about this emerging tech. 459311institute.com MRLNext >