Human augmentation

• Technology such as biochips, augmented intelligence, emotion ai and immersive workspaces will continue to grow in popularity over the next five to ten years, ushering in an age where bionics, brain-computer interfaces and neurotechnology are the norm.
• The India Opportunity an integrated data utilization strategy can add US$450 - US$ 500 billion to India's GDP by 2025.
• AI, virtual reality, and other new technologies will triple the number of people with disabilities employed by 2023 - leading to a brand new workforce.
• Human Augmentation: The behavioral analytics market is expected to reach $3 billion in revenue in 2030, up from $230 million in 2019.
• The market for next-generation batteries - at one-sixth the cost and 20 times the operating life - is expected to grow 120 times between now and 2040, powering the infrastructure of human augmentation.
• Around 40% of enterprises will shift from designing for humans to designing humans themselves through the adoption of human augmentation technologies and methodologies, by 2025.
• Increasing levels of physical and cognitive human augmentation will become prevalent as individuals seek personal enhancements over the next 10 years - creating a new consumerisation effect where employees seek to exploit their personal enhancements to improve their office environment.
• Over the next 10 years, increasing levels of physical and cognitive human augmentation will become more prevalent as individuals seek personal enhancements raising the number of biohackers and bodyhackers globally.
• Profound transformations to medicine and society neural interfaces could provoke looming ethical implications.
• Gartner projects by 2025, 40% of enterprises will adopt human augmentation technologies and methodologies.
• By 2025, 40 per cent of enterprises will shift from designing for humans to architecting humans themselves by adopting human augmentation technologies and methodologies.
• At CES 2019, Prsonas will demonstrate a smart, interactive self-service hologram that can act as a virtual sales rep.
• Imperial College is trialling a new hologram technology that will allow the university to beam the best lecturers from across the globe into their business school.
• University students at Imperial College Business School will be the first in the world to have live lectures delivered to them via hologram.
• Amy Winehouse's hologram will be going on tour in 2019 along with a live band, according to Engadget.
• The global Hologram market is valued at 29 million US$ in 2017 and will reach 190 million US$ by the end of 2025.
• Global threats will push demand and see increased integration of holograms alongside other authentication and track and trace technologies to deliver overt and covert protection in 2018.
• Asia-Pacific region is expected to have moderate growth rate for cellular IoT market as countries such as China and Taiwan have advantage of large pool of semiconductor vendors.
• Europe will have higher market growth in 3D Hologram Projector market during forecast period.
• Everything is going to go into a mixed-reality world.
• Food products like Hellman's Mayonnaise or Extra Virgin Olive Oil will be able to deliver exclusive 3D recipe tutorials given by a Rachel Ray hologram.
• Blockchain could power the next generation of anti-counterfeit solutions.
• Gaming is expected to be a huge driver of AR and VR tech alike.

Last updated: 10 January 2021