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Tremendous advances have been made in cancer detection and treatments.
SPACE 2.0 THE EMERGENCE OF SPACE ENTREPRENEURS It was only a short time ago that all global space programs were driven by national agencies. But in short order we have arrived at what some are calling Space 2.0. This is the era of space entrepreneurs and new private space businesses. Having spoken at Space conferences, it is clear that a vast number of new satellites will be launching soon. Last year it is estimated that the Space industry global commercial investment was approximately $2.7 billion. This investment was larger than the total Space spend between 1990 and 2014. And having attended a SpaceX launch I can tell you the new products are amazing. All of this requires optics connecting IoT and computing for design, launch, satellite communications and drone communications. And then it continues – Mars City Design, a wonderful initiative lead by Vera Mulyani, is already designing architecture, art, technology, and infrastructure for the first city on Mars. CONNECTING OVER BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DEVICES There will be an estimated 50 billion connected devices outside of data centres by 2020. And market estimates also call for greater than 60 million connected CPUs dedicated to visualisation alone in the 2014-2020 time-period. What does this mean for optics, and what role will optics play? Think of it this way – those 50 billion devices are estimated to generate approximately 35 zettabytes of data (ie. 35 x 10 21 bytes). It is nearly impossible to imagine that amount of data. Yet it will exist and it must be processed, analysed, learned from and acted upon. This requires data centers behind those 50 billion devices. Data centres that will interconnect, in one site alone, hundreds of thousands of servers. And the predominate interconnection will be optics. So it is we, the optics industry, which will provide the connectivity for this tremendous growth in capability and providing a wealth of new experiences. Without optics this just would not be possible. THE NEED FOR SCALE And with this tremendous growth we will need optics that can scale up in bandwidth, and down in cost, density and energy. This will require many innovations in optics. And this innovation will never stop. 2016 will indeed be an exciting year for us. INTO THE FUTURE So the next time your friends use their phones, put on their virtual reality headsets, stream movies, or ultimately know cancer can be treated successfully via precision medicine, you can tell them that optical interconnects were instrumental in making that possible.
experience via an augmented reality headset. And through time the virtual coach itself will take on personal and physical characteristics.
and secure precision medicine platform that enables research to be orchestrated across the data sets of multiple institutions, without transferring the raw patient data. Utilising the power of the cloud, the power of compute, and the bandwidth of optical interconnects, the program will continue to focus on making new discoveries and accelerating personalised cancer care for everybody su ering from this disease. INTERNET OF THINGS AND NEW EXPERIENCES Aspen Colorado 2016 – The X Games get underway with a whole new technology paradigm. This is another exciting X Games for participants and their audience. Only this time the experience for both will be stepped up. Each snowboarder improve their performance at the event itself, dramatically accelerating their improvement rate. And in real-time the audience can see and experience the data on each participant. See how far they jumped, how hard they landed, and how they are improving. This will pull the audience even further into the experiences of X Games. And those experiences will be shared socially across Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Youtube and many other social sites. Consumer Electronics Show 2016 – Oakley demonstrated an augmented reality headset that takes the wearables experience to a new level. This headset provides a computer- generated training coach to each individual. Personalised training will now become possible through the collection, and monitoring individual’s health statistics. This data will then go through an analysis and machine learning phase and provide the personalised coaching back to the individual in a real time will be outfitted with an IoT setup. This will enable the participants to
MOVING BEYOND 4K VIDEO TO 8K VIDEO
Rio Summer Olympics – Japanese broadcaster NHK transmits the games via 8K TV to Japan for a five-day period. This requires sending data, via satellite, from Brazil to Japan in order to deliver an 8K experience. An 8K system must capture, transmit and display 33M pixels and 22 channels of surround sound. The resolution of the 8K screen is 7680 x 4320 pixels. Having personally seen the NHK 8K system at both Rockefeller Center and Fox Studios, I can tell you it is a game- changing experience. And the equipment setup is currently a large mass of very bulky electrical cables. 8K will make the viewing experience even more immersive and requires a more elegant cabling solution – a perfect opportunity for end-to-end optics. O Shore Wind Farm 2016 – The windmills in the farm generate power for many people and businesses. They are highly e cient due to centuries of engineering and usage experience, but even more so due to the incredible compute power available cost-e ectively. And of course the data centers driving this capability are interconnected with optics. But now we add IoT capability to the windmills. We now accelerate the future by being able to better understand their real- world behavior, make real-time e ciency adjustments and provide for more cost-e ective maintenance. But this also enables designing better, more e ciency windmills via the data. By incorporating data analytics and machine learning we will be able to develop this clean energy technology even further.
Next-generation computational technologies are being developed to dramatically increase the speed and lower cost implications of precision medicine in cancer treatment.
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