Disruptive Technology

Harshil Patel I believe water recycling technology is a promising movement that will significantly impact the lives of millions of individuals worldwide. This game-changing technology will benefit approximately 780 million individuals worldwide in underdeveloped and developing countries who don’t have access to clean water, as cited by the CDC. Water ...

Name: Chapin Eager Class: ENES464 I find the transition to more meatless diets exceptionally interesting. In order to fit this changing demand, there are companies creating “meatless meats” which seek to give consumers the taste and texture of meat without consuming meat. During my research to find an interesting disruptive ...

by Wayne Kueh (113305054) While not as flashy or prominent as other technologies, the innovation of machine translation will eventually become a vital undercurrent through which global society is conducted. Machine translation is when a software program on a computer or network takes text or speech in one language and ...

Flying Cars: A Future Flying Disruption? Mishaal SyedNaveed Flying cars are fairly new to this world, the first one flown in 2009. What is classified as a flying car, exactly? A flying car (more formally known as eVTOLs — for electric vertical takeoff and landing) is the electric scooters of ...

As we evolve, technology becomes cheaper and therefore more accessible to more people. In 2015 Apples Iphone had superior capability to sixteen different devices in 1990 that would have cost over $10,000. Moore’s theory notes that the power of computers would double every 12 months while the cost of that ...

Brianne Nguyen Within the past decade, self driving cars have become increasingly popular in modern cars. Some companies, such as Tesla and Uber, have already begun to integrate this concept into their own vehicles. It would protect other drivers from reckless driving. Human mistakes are much more common than software ...

Amnah Mahmood A major technological innovation on the horizon that I believe will have significant impact on the global society is genome editing. Genome editing, also known as, genome engineering is a type of genetic engineering in which DNA can be used to add, remove, or alter the genome of ...

By. Ryan Villalobos The Hollywood film industry has painted a negative picture of the unintended consequences of gene editing for decades.  But these days, viable gene editing is closer than ever and is certainly poised to be an incredibly disruptive technology.  With the wide availability of CRISPR technology, gene editing is ...

By: Chad Baker In this post I will address the future of AI for global society, the consequences of its development (positive vs. negative), and the impact on the way people work and play every day. AI, like most groundbreaking technologies, is either the greatest thing to ever happen to ...

Disruptive Technologies: Cloud Computing Cody Rygg   As technology advances, the application of cloud computing has become more and more talked about. Cloud computing is the concept of performing certain computations to some other device (or devices) on the internet. The idea is that some things are much to resource ...