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getting safer by the day, these vehicles will not AI POWERED
only put an end to our traffic woes, they will also
make the roads safer than what they are today. BIOMETRICS
• Drones and GPS Cars: Drones and GPS
enabled vehicles started out as a military aid,
but soon found their application in a wide range
of consumer and commercial applications
including delivering of goods by e-commerce
companies.
• Pocket Super-Computers for Everyone:
An iPhone 6 has 2 billion transistors, roughly
625 times more transistors than a 1995 Intel
Pentium computer. Today’s smart-phones are
what used to be super computers. The strength A biometric system is a technological system
of these devices seems to be unimaginable by that uses information about a person (including
2050. fingerprints, facial images, iris, voice/face
• Artificial Intelligence: Artificial intelligence recognition, etc) to identify that person. Biometric
and data analytics may be the buzz words today, devices and related technologies have been in use
but they seem to be clouting every industry as since 500BC when fingerprints on clay were used
well as the social framework of the society. IOT for business transactions. FBI first used automation
enabled technologies will enable intelligence in with biometrics to maintain criminal records and set
everything around us. the precedence for the future of biometric devices.
• Virtual and Augmented Reality: Computer Biometric solutions are typically used for security
processing has become fast and small enough and access control across organizations and
to power convincing virtual and augmented institutions. Biometric systems are based on
reality experiences. VR will soon transcend physical and behavioural recognition techniques.
the boundaries of the themes parks and will A person’s physical and behavioural traits/
become our companion, our pets or neighbours characteristics are encoded and then digitally
in the next few decades. sampled during authentication and verification
process. So is biometrics are smart, AI has made it
• The New Space Age: Since the beginning smarter.
of the space age in the 1950s, governments
of major countries have funded their space Although biometrics have been trusted for accurate
programs whole-heartedly. Transportation of authentication mechanisms but advanced
human life beyond Earth and colonization of technologies developed with the help of artificial
our neighbouring planets will become a reality. intelligence and machine learning can deceive
biometric systems. Algorithms to produce synthetic
• Clean Energy: Technology cannot survive fingerprints have been developed to dupe biometric
unless it defines solutions for the issues systems.
impacting mankind. Non-conventional sources
of energy including sun, wind, water (oceans) Thus scientists have started using AI and machine
etc, will be used to meet our energy demands at language enabled systems as an anecdote for
affordable costs. enhancing the strength of biometric devices.
Artificial intelligence (AI) in sci-fi movies has been
• Better Food through Science: Earth is running entertaining us for years. Smart homes that trigger
out of farmable land and fresh water. Food a lock-down at the slightest hint of danger or facial
industry has already started working towards security scans that grant access to only the invited
developing new food products that are tasty guests are no longer confined to the world of fiction
and nutritious substitutes for traditional foods – they are becoming a reality for consumers.
and can be preserved for longer durations.
The time between two keystrokes of an individual
Science as I see will over-shadow most human can help recognise an individual, or one can identify
activities in the decades to come. It is a challenge an individual fully just by the way he/she walks using
for the human race to maintain its’ sanctity. gait recognition techniques. Microphones that can
-Adarsh Arora, VII-A capture sound waves reflected inside the ear canal
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