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Every year on November 10 is World Science and Development Day. IN honor of this holiday section Hi-Tech Days. trends that will change the future of mankind. The future may scare or make him look forward to it. But as practice shows, few were able to make sufficiently accurate forecasts that awaiting us. Unbelievable and unexpected always appear. technologies that change the world. 3D printing 3D printers are long gone from the walls of laboratories and universities. If initially they were created to create prototypes of mechanisms or parts, then gradually they become a “toy” of mass use. Already Now in Moscow you can order a figure in the form of yourself or any three-dimensional model. Printers learn to print not only plastic models, but also tissues, organs, build buildings, do futuristic food, and some, like RepRap, may partially recreate yourself. Gradually, three-dimensional printing becomes an integral part of human life. Warren Ellis and Daryk Robertson, creators of the Transmetropolitan comic strip back in 1997 portrayed a printer of the future under the name “collector”. By design authors, this full-fledged computer will be able to recycle garbage on molecular level and create from it thousands of things including clothes and equipment. Cloud services
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Despite the prosaicity of this idea, the future is already here. Battle for information storage on own servers goes between the largest IT corporations for several years. Google knows our requests and their basis shows ads, Gmail does not delete electronic letters, but only archives them. Apple with its iCloud stores on servers photos, contacts and documents, Microsoft keeps “in the cloud” Word documents, even Sony uploads information about PlayStation users, saved games, screenshots and more data. Without “cloud services” any smartphone seems useless piece of iron. And so, it’s very convenient, because now anywhere in the world You can access your data. But it remains open no less an important question, who else can access your data? Edward Snowden told us everything, so we don’t believe anyone. Cryptocurrency
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Quite a controversial point of our top. The most popular The current cryptocurrency is Bitcoin . She is decentralized independent and many find it difficult to understand where it comes from. Bitcoinused to pay on the “deep internet” for maintaining anonymity. And the “anonymity” here is perhaps the key word. Governments around the world enact laws to regulating the circulation of this anonymous and anonymous currencies. In Russia, the Ministry wants to ban operations with Bitcoin finance. Office proposes administratively or criminally to punish for the release of monetary surrogates and operations with their use. It is planned that the legal act will enter effective in 2015. The initiators of the amendment note that lack of accountability to national authorities attracts “cryptocurrencies” the shadow sector of the economy. Due to the fact that the names owners are hidden, the so-called Bitcoin, gained popularity upon purchase of illegal goods, as well as legalization of income, obtained by criminal means. Well, any coin has two sides. Internet of things
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The interaction of things through communication systems is discussed in order the moment the internet came up. The idea is like a smart home, but not limited to housing itself. Practical use “Internet of things” allows the apartment to configure acceptable temperature, when you only drive up to the house, automatically turn on the coffee machine upon waking up, remind you of necessary purchases, when you are in the store, and remotely open the door of the apartment to relatives even when you are not at home. But just imagine what opportunities in such an “Internet of things” will hackers get. Wearable gadgets
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The first signs among wearable gadgets are smart watches, glasses and bracelets. As soon as the watch replaces mobile phones, but with Using NFC sensors for wireless data transfer, wallets are also also documents, they will turn into things really first necessary. It seems strange to trust your passport, wallet and rights to one small device. But who says paper passport and plastic credit card more reliable.
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