The Future of Technologies: Content

Karlheinz Steinmüller with Angela Steinmüller
Murmann Verlag Hamburg 2006

Introduction

• A look into the 21st century
• The art of technology foresight

Technology Fields

• Information and communication technologies
• Biotechnologies
• Nanotechnologies
• Neurotechnologies

Application Fields

• Medicine and Health: From Healing to Reconstruction
• Artificial Intelligence: The Long March of Robots
• Energy: The world after oil
• Food and Agriculture: Individualized and Highly Technological
• Production: Virtual and rapid
• Media: The virtual world
• Environment: preparedness and global management
• Transport: interconnected and on new infrastructures
• Buildings: Intelligent and bionic
• Security: Invisible fronts and cyber war ?
• Space: Robots, Chinese and Tourists
• No plus ultra: Technologies that remain utopian  

Synopsis

• Megatrends: The major development lines
• Techno-Involution, a new stage in evolution
• Long-term scenarios: diverging technology paths
• Germany and the next technology wave
• A century of plus ultra