Technological breakthroughs and future business opportunities in education, health, and outer space

Angus Hooke (Australian Institute of Higher Education, Australia), editor

"Based on four areas of focus (technology; health, education, and outer space; the contributions of technologies; future business opportunities in the upcoming generations) this book provides both an historical overview of changes in technologies and their impact on business in our lives, as well as suggests plausible forecasts of developments in technologies and associated business opportunities in the near and medium term future"--

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Year of publication:	[2021]
Other Persons:	Hooke, Angus (ed.)
Publisher:	[2021]: Hershey, PA : IGI Global
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 353 Seiten)
Series:	Advances in human and social aspects of technology (AHSAT) book series Premier reference source
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Section 1. The big picture. Chapter 1. Technology and gross world product: from homo habilis to homo techne ; Chapter 2. Technological convergence: from biological evolution to technological evolution ; Chapter 3. Technology convergences to enhance education, health, and community self-sufficiency and resilience ; Chapter 4. Technological beyond: merging of man and machine -- Section 2. Technology-oriented developments. Chapter 5. Breakthroughs in information technology and their implications for education and health ; Chapter 6. Revisiting our quantum world: applications to education, health, and security ; Chapter 7. Biotechnology: recent developments, emerging trends, and implications for business ; Chapter 8. Cognitive technologies: applications to cognition itself ; Chapter 9. Autonomous robots: transformative and disruptive ; Chapter 10. Toward benevolent AGI by integrating knowledge graphs for classical economics, education, and health: AI governed by ethics and trust-based social capital -- Section 3. Output-oriented developments. Chapter 11. The transition to online teaching and learning: 'like ducks to water' ; Chapter 12. Crisis in US accounting education: twenty years later ; Chapter 13. Removing the constraints of disability: how new technology is transforming the experience of disabilities ; Chapter 14. Toward eradicating all diseases ; Chapter 15. Ageing: everybody's doing it life-affirming technology and the longevity economy ; Chapter 16. Never say die: the techno-politics of radical life extension ; Chapter 17. Enhancing mental health: a role for technology ; Chapter 18. The coming space age: forecasts from the techcast project ; Chapter 19. Space tourism and commercial deep space: humans going to and beyond low earth orbit ; Chapter 20. Asteroid futures: the United States of America, space mining, and sovereignty in space 2.0.
ISBN:	978-1-7998-6774-6 ; 1-7998-6774-9 ; 978-1-7998-6772-2 ; 978-1-7998-6773-9
Other identifiers:	10.4018/978-1-7998-6772-2 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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