Emerging technology-based capabilities include:

 

Autonomous Networked Devices and Systems 

• Self-driving ground and vertical take-off & landing vehicles

• Robots for commercial and residential use

• Exoskeletons and other intelligent augmentation tools 

• Personal portable health monitoring & treatment

 

Additive Custom Manufacturing 

• Rapid flexible custom production & construction

• Remote on-site fabrication of items

• Artificial organ growth for humans and animals

  

Real-time Precision Optimum Information, Control, and Services 

• Anticipatory and predictive

• Customized individual biological and mechanical diagnoses and treatments 

• Precise fast on-line search results

• Swarm intelligence for fast optimum resolution of issues

 

Immersive Hands-off, Heads-up Virtual User Interface 

• Augmented real-time information assistance for professionals and others

• Non-intrusive video display, audio, voice and free-space hand control

• Full sensory collaborative virtual teleportation

 

Hybrid Flexible Power

• Integrated battery/solar/fossil fuel motors

• Wireless mobile electrical charging

• Open grid – users also provide excess generated energy to the grid

• 4th generation nuclear – smaller, safer and cleaner

 

Dynamic Communications Networks  

• Software configured

• Virtualized functions

• Peer-to-peer multi-hop mesh

• Ultra-wideband wireless access

 

Standardized Packetization of Things (information, energy, physical items)

• Open global logistics including nesting containers and real-time tracking

• Distributed ledger for fast secure standardized transactions. 

• Quantized energy units for selling and trading

• Containerized software that’s plug and play and self-configuring

• Next generation information packetization