Wild Cards contributed by Martin Fatun
Chip is inserted in the body at birth which will monitor the body, prevent diseases and heal the body if necessary. It can also communicate with health centre and ask for medical intervention and treatments. People will no lo...
This wildcard was generated from the Grand Challenge Work Life Balance. The original idea was derived from a work saving aspect whereby thoughts could be transferred straight from the brain onto software similar to Microsoft W...
Secure and safe internet that is easy to use
This wild card was deemed originally as very dull but very wild. As the title suggests a new Internet would be developed that would be safe from criminal activity and social pathologies (private information theft, pornography,...
A significant breakthrough in physics of materials has been made to further to increase efficiency in production of energy. New non-fragile carbon composites were developed as well as new superconductors.
Clean coal technology discovered
Energy industry in number of countries will be still to a large extent based on conventional coal energy. Despite of the fact that coal is the most pollutive fossil fuel, it is still to be the most widely used source of energy ...
A breakthrough discovery in plasma physics
A shocking discovery has been made in ITER, which enables fast implementation of thermonuclear fusion into practical utilization in energy production.
A considerable increase in efficiency of renewable resources
An ongoing rapid development of renewable resources of energy results in increase of their efficiency, availability and stability. As a result, some countries start to consider renewable resources as a real alternative to conve...
Severe accident of a nuclear power plant
Although the risk of a severe accident of a nuclear power plant is extremely low, it is still not a zero-risk. In the past, at least two major accidents of nuclear power plants occurred – in Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, w...
The Moore's Law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware, in which the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years. When the ...
3D media trustworthily copying reality
Advanced 3D technology is used for image data recording and presentation, which can perfectly imitate reality, Practically whatever from personal appointmente to new clothing trial can be done in 3D virtual space instead of rea...
Information crisis caused by personalized information delivery
Development of smart internet media technologies, which enable targeted supply of information to individual users according to their expressed preferences and unexpressed patterns of behaviour, together with development of perv...
In case of stopping civil wars and lethal epidemics, fair land distribution and increase of education Africa may become important player on the economic map of the world. There is enormous wealth of raw materials and natural re...
Health care of the elderly is predominantly IT-based
Currently state budgets on health care for the ageing population are rising. This wildcard revolves around robots and technology being used more in caring for the elderly, especially to save on costs.
Handling of thermal management of intricate layered electron ...
New technologies and materials for low thermal resistance interfaces and electrical interconnects have been discovered, which enable to eliminate obstacles with heat in intricate layered electronic assemblies. This technology m...
3D video holography brakethrough
The 3D holography is only one known technology that can capture a full 3D scene in a single shot, including phase information, and re-project that light field perfectly thus overcoming all of the above disadvantages: holography...
Ultra low cost laboratories on chips
Conventional analytical methods often require a large sample volume and complicated time-consuming protocols. The ultra low cost laboratories on chips (LOC), which will integrate the Microsystems (valves, pumps, reservoirs, hea...
It was spoken about paperless office and electronic books for long time, but none of considered elecronic technologies was able to reach excellence of the common paper until the " true electronic paper" has been developed. It h...
Far Infrared (FIR) camera module used in high volume automotive Night Vision Enhancement Systems (NVE) is capable of detecting a person on the road from a distance of up to 120 m. This makes FIR system together with intelligent...
Printed electornics revolution
Printed electronics is a set of printing methods used to create electrically functional devices. Paper has been often proposed to be used as substrate but due the rough surface and high humidity absorption other materials such ...
Not only closing with integrated electronic appliances and data transmition channels, but as well closing which can instantly change its collor, shape and size in harmony with surrounding environment or on demand of user. And ...
Biochips for early detection of diseases
The biochips are envisioned to “prophesize” potential predisposition to, or diagnose the early onset of human diseases, paving the way for advances in personalized health care. Such a clever chip may be implatnt to everybod...
Universal personal energy wallet
Everyody has one's own personal "energy wallet" which may be used as univerzal source of energy (battery) for various electronic personal gadgets (such as notebook, mobile phone, mp3 player, gameboy, shaving machine etc.). Tha...
One standardized web services architecture dominates the sof ...
One standardized reliable and trustworthy open source web services architecture dominates the worldwide software industry under the baton of European open source prject leaders. Through support of open source software platform ...
People behaviour controlled by ultrasonic transponder system
There is developed a novel telemetry technology for biomedical applications that will enable any kind of deeply implanted device (the transponder) to communicate and be powered wirelessly via acoustic waves with the external sy...
The war between natural and artificial ecosystems
Microsystems will evolve in the future into integrated smart systems which are able to sense and diagnose a situation, which are predictive, and therefore are able to decide and help to decide. Smart systems address and identif...
Large-scale offshore wind farms solve the energy crisis
A key socio-economic challenge for Europe is: how to deal with a climate change, while meeting rapidly increasing demand for energy and ensuring security of supply? Wind energy can be a significant part of the answer. The new f...
Europe gains dominance in optical computing technology
An optical computer (also called a photonic computer) is a device that uses the photons in visible light or infrared (IR) beams, rather than electric current, to perform digital computations. An electric current creates heat in...
European research centres under attack of miniature robotic ...
Huge quantities of robotic bugs and flies of unknown origin were uncovered in many top-class research centres across Europe. These miniature spies are able to organise themselves autonomously, collect information from their sur...
Development of new intelligent robotic devices and machines started new era in utilization of ocean environment and resources. Elecric power from solar power plants on the ocean survace is utilized in underwater factories built...
Artificial companions exceed in popularity live biological p ...
After new generation of flaqles artifical companios had been invented, the popularity of living with robotic partner increased rapidly. New robotic companions are helpful, nice, empathetic and obliging day and night and it is p...
Several robotic platforms were developed across Europe, but no sufficient common communication standards were established. Therefore it is difficult and expensive to ensure mutual cooperation between individual robots and robot...
Sign language established as the main tool for intarnational ...
After English lost its worldwide significance and Chinese proved to be too complicated to learn for western population, sign language has bee established as the main tool for international communication. The sign language was ...
Harmfulness of wireless communication has been proved
New technology of dynamic spectrum allocation (i.e. technology capable to detect free holes in used wireless spectrum and to use these holes for broadcastintg) made possible strong grows of wireless broadcasting and wireless da...
Successful intelligent R&D data mining tools created
Today's growing wealth of digital data in Europe is poorly exploited. Advances in storage, pervasive computing, digital sensors and instrumentation have led to massive growth in the volume of data collected and the number and c...
Common virtual ICT infrastructure for European research esta ...
New service based ICT infrasturcture enables efficient utilization of common ICT resouces across all the European R&D institutions and structures. This common attitude significantli improves utilization of computing resources a...
Economic crisis caused by unreliability of SCM software
It is a well-known fact that collaborative supply chain management and planning reduces overall costs. Nevertheless it is not being exploited due the fact that partners are reluctant to share the necessary, but sensitive data. ...
Dozen people killed by computer gaming
New type of unautorized computer network games has emerged on the internet. These games are potentially dangerous for the players. In combination with specific gaming gadgets they are able to cause serious health demage or even...
Traditional "camera-on-top-of-a-TV-set-on-a-cart" videoconferencing systems have failed to meet the "telepresence challenge" of providing a viable alternative for physical business travel, which is nowadays characterized by una...
Complete loss of privacy - Europe is lagging in cryptography
Due to huge improvement of rough computing force the Chinese scientists are able to solve all the secret codes currently used in digital communinication. New cryptography methods are necessary, but European scientists are laggi...
3D multimedia revolution didn't come
Film or cinema had been the driving force for the entertainment industry, setting the standards of quality, providing the most compelling experience, and feeding the distribution chains of other media (broadcast TV, cable and s...
P2P networks as a predominant technology for data management
P2P (Peer-to-Peer) is a technology that fosters self-deployment and self-organisation, thus, it is reducing operational costs, while it achieves optimised resource utilisation for the deployed applications and services.Therefor...
New system of IPR based on innovation permits
New European/international system of Intelectual Property Rights is established. The system is based on so colled 'innovation permits'. If someone puts into the system a new invention or technology, he gains approwal (i.e. perm...
Advanced software systoms will become so complex, that the diagnostic of their correct/incorrect opperation will be unaccomplishable by common tools for software development. It will cause slowdown of further software developm...
Efficient work with personal data made impossible due to exo ...
Permanently increasing legislation demands to personal data protection will cause a serious security incident - imprtant data about treatment of patients in a big hospital are irrecoverably lost, because it was not possible to ...
Collapse of internet network connection structure
Due to quickly growing demand for intenet bandwidth in combination with frequent and massive hacking attempts on the interet, the connection through the network will become highly unstable and unreliable. Practically no real ti...
