Emerging technologies, Emerging Risks: Current Approaches on the Future Risks of Human Enhancement Technologies

Emerging EMF technologies action on possible health risks

In recent years, there has been an unprecedented increase in the use of devices emitting electromagnetic fields (EMF). This impinges on every aspect of day-to-day living, whether in the home, in public places or at work. While the benefits to society of such technologies, for example in mobile and other personal radio-communications, are accepted, significant public and media concern continues ...

Editorial: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives on Emerging Bioelectrochemical Technologies

In its simplest form, bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) consist of an anode, a cathode, and a microbial catalyst (Rabaey and Rozendal, 2010). One of the attractive features of bioelectrochemical technology is that, BESs can be developed to implement anodic-based or cathodic-based bioprocesses or both at the same time. For example, pollutants can be degraded by a specialized microbial catalyst a...

Emerging Instructional Technologies : the near Future

Twenty years ago it would have been hard to imagine that computer networking would have such a profound influence on the field of instructional design and technology (IDT) and throughout society as a whole. The quest to build a better mouse trap is now guided by emerging technologies that continually strive toward being faster, smaller, more intelligent, and distributed. Predicting the future o...

On Emerging Biometric Technologies

Many body parts, personal characteristics and imaging methods have been suggested and used for biometrics systems: fingers, hands, feet, faces, eyes, ears, teeth, veins, voices, signatures, typing styles and gaits. Literature contains a wide range of techniques occupying a large number of implemented algorithms regarding biometrics. In this paper we will introduce the latest improvements on bio...

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