Augmented Reality: Principles and Practice

Chapter 14. The Future

We have entered the information age, and digital technology, which is largely freed from physical constraints, is progressing at an unprecedented pace. Moore’s law, which originally predicted an exponential growth of transistor count in integrated circuits, has led to similar growth in the overall development of information technology.

The first major change in everyday life owed to information technology occurred in the 1980s, with the conversion of office work from analog to digital. Since the 1990s, many areas of private life, such as verbal communications, mail, photography, and music appreciation, have been altered in an irreversible way through information technology and the Internet. Over the subsequent years, social ...