Category: 4IR Technologies / Components Explained Easily
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What is Robotics?
(This answer is taken from my book ‘Innovate the Next: Success Frameworks to Innovating Products in Any Revolution’). This technology has come far. We’ve been hearing about robots since we were young. We’ve seen them in movies such as Paul Verhoeven’s, RoboCop (1987).
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What is AI (Artificial Intelligence)?
(This answer is taken from my book ‘Innovate the Next: Success Frameworks to Innovating Products in Any Revolution’). Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence by computers and machines. It is your phone simply being able to discern whether it’s you or an unauthorised intruder. This is done via an inbuilt sensor which requires…
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What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
(This answer is taken from my book ‘Innovate the Next: Success Frameworks to Innovating Products in Any Revolution’). IoT is multiple objects or devices connecting over the internet to exchange and process data with other devices.
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What is Nanotechnology?
(This answer is taken from my book ‘Innovate the Next: Success Frameworks to Innovating Products in Any Revolution’). Nanotechnology is concerned with building things, materials and devices, to the same scale as atoms and molecules.
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What is 3D Printing (Additive Manufacturing?
(This answer is taken from my book ‘Innovate the Next: Success Frameworks to Innovating Products in Any Revolution’). The predecessor of 3D printing is mould injection.
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What is Autonomous Vehicles?
(This answer is taken from my book ‘Innovate the Next: Success Frameworks to Innovating Products in Any Revolution’). An autonomous vehicle, or self-driving car, is a car that can sense its environment and safely drive you to the next point.
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What is Biotechnology?
(This answer is taken from my book ‘Innovate the Next: Success Frameworks to Innovating Products in Any Revolution’). Biotechnology is a broad area that involves the use of living organisms and systems to produce a variety of uses and products in various fields, even outside of biology.
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What is Quantum Computing?
(This answer is taken from my book ‘Innovate the Next: Success Frameworks to Innovating Products in Any Revolution’). The famous quote before a speaker starts to explain anything regarding quantum science is a reference to the late physicist Richard Feynman: “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.”
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What is Decentralized Consensus?
(This answer is taken from my book Innovate the Next). Decentralisedconsensus is the ability of participants on a tributed network to reach perfect agreement on a shared database, without the involvement of a central authoritative figure. With Blockchain currencies, the transactions are approved by decentralised individuals who approve based only on that it is a…
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What is 5G (Fifth-Generation Wireless Technology)?
(This answer is taken from my book ‘Innovate the Next: Success Frameworks to Innovating Products in Any Revolution’). In a simple sense, 5G is better mobile internet than 4G and its predecessors (3G, 2G and 1G).