Emerging Technologies and the Future of CBRN Terrorism

One component of military policy in particular lies at the very crossroads of strategic planning and structural arenas of policy. This is force planning, the interactive, intertemporal art intended to ensure that deficiencies in today’s force structure are being corrected while preparing for a future that may resemble the present or differ from it in unexpected ways. While force planners must think about what the future security environment might look like, what technologies might be available, and how future forces might leverage these emerging technologies to meet the challenges of a future security environment, they must always be cognizant of domestic structural factors. This chapter argues that a force planner must always be guided by a coherent strategic logic. Structural factors can never be eliminated, but a strong strategic rationale can minimize them.

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Internet of Things for the Future of Smart Agriculture: A Comprehensive Survey of Emerging Technologies

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica ◽

10.1109/jas.2021.1003925 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 718-752

Author(s):

Othmane Friha ◽

Mohamed Amine Ferrag ◽

Lei Shu ◽

Leandros Maglaras ◽

Xiaochan Wang

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Emerging Technologies ◽

The Future ◽

Comprehensive Survey ◽

Smart Agriculture

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The Future of Emerging Technologies and Nursing

Emerging Technologies for Nurses ◽

10.1891/9780826146519.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Whende M. Carroll

Keyword(s):

Emerging Technologies ◽

The Future

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Proceedings of the 19th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education, and Technology: “Prospective and trends in technology and skills for sustainable social development” “Leveraging emerging technologies to construct the future”

10.18687/laccei2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Development ◽

Engineering Education ◽

Emerging Technologies ◽

The Future ◽

Education And Technology

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Conclusion - Remediating the Community-University Partnership

Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-623-7.ch037 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 387-401

Author(s):

Russell G. Carpenter

Keyword(s):

Communication Skills ◽

21St Century ◽

Emerging Technologies ◽

Learning Opportunities ◽

University Partnerships ◽

Eastern Kentucky ◽

The Future ◽

University Partnership ◽

Eastern Kentucky University

The concept of remediation, as outlined by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, offers a lens through which 21st-century partnerships might be analyzed and reinvented. Accordingly, this chapter argues that looking to the future, community-university partnerships will gain momentum as centralizing educational venues, while emerging technologies will offer mediated spaces where academic, professional, and nonprofit institutions merge to provide learning opportunities that engage both sides. This chapter situates the multiliteracy space—in this case the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity at Eastern Kentucky University—as a model for community-university partnerships that employ emerging technologies to develop communication skills.

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New Mediation, New Films, New Experiments

The Empathic Screen ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198793533.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 181-202

Author(s):

Vittorio Gallese ◽

Michele Guerra

Keyword(s):

Emerging Technologies ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

The Future ◽

Film Reception ◽

New Form ◽

Film Viewing ◽

Empirical Approaches

This chapter presents the authors’ view of the future, discussing new digital technologies and mediations and their impact on film and its reception. The subheadings are: “New positioning,” a discussion of the future of film and cinema in the light of new and emerging technologies and the few empirical studies addressing these issues; “Digital presences,” an overview of how the authors’ model can help in formulating new theoretical and empirical approaches; “Death by chat,” an analysis of the film Unfriended with a discussion of how new mediations of filmic content reshape the spectator’s relation to film; “A new film grammar,” which introduces action cams and their impact on film viewing; and “Goodbye to the screen?” which envisions how the new filmic mediation may generate a new form of film reception.

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Augmented Reality–Assisted Dementia Care

Intelligent Assistive Technologies for Dementia ◽

10.1093/med/9780190459802.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 71-92

Author(s):

Mengyu Y. Zhao ◽

S. K. Ong ◽

Andrew Y. C. Nee

Keyword(s):

Augmented Reality ◽

Motor Skills ◽

Real World ◽

Emerging Technologies ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Aging Population ◽

Dementia Care ◽

High Rate ◽

The Future ◽

World Environment

With the increasing aging population, the number of people suffering from dementia continues to grow at a high rate. Emerging technologies have been applied to support the independence of patients with dementia. Among these technologies, augmented reality (AR) technology augments computer-generated virtual content on the real-world environment. There is an increasing interest in the use of AR tools and applications for dementia care as these tools and applications are capable of providing intuitive interaction and reducing the workload of caregivers. This chapter presents a state-of-the-art overview of AR-assisted applications for dementia care. An AR-assisted healthcare exercising system that enhances the user’s motor skills and cognition capability is presented to illustrate the use of AR in dementia care. Furthermore, an outlook of the future of AR-assisted dementia care applications is presented.

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