Human augmentation

• 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.
• Given the success of Narendra Modi's hologram appearances at last year's election in India expect to see hologram speeches during next year's US presidential election campaign.

Last updated: 22 November 2020