Week 5

6.2 Emerging technologies

6.2.1 Understand how developments in technologies impact on organisations, individuals and society:

• storage media:

o increased demand for storage

• processing technologies:

o quantum computing

• internet of things:

o edge computing

o network utilisation

o use within different contexts (industrial, smart city, domestic)

• artificial intelligence:

o generative AI

o machine learning

• extended reality:

o augmented reality

o virtual reality

• open source software

• blockchain

• 3D printing

• drones

• environmental:

o consumption of rare metals

o energy to produce electronic systems

o environmental impact of disposal

• autonomous machines:

o self-driving cars

o robotic assembly lines

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