some digital sources ; Germany's AHT Singapore Davos S&P MIT Stanford
AI one day there will be too much data mapping in any operating system humans used to govern, SO AI will be the real time mediator (questions what to prioritise : eg over last 20 years why wasn't ai pandemic tracking priority over ai autonomous cars?;; whats the risk that initially incomplete inclusion of data will multiply inequality or make a race-fatal mistake) - see also futureoflife.org&
Satellite GPS - old worlds may have used lat and long- but now satellites GPS anywhere on the planet; smart tools beaming up data may be called :-
IOT: internet of things - from your personal mobile, to myriads of sensors you may wear to track your body's vitals, to a smart city camera, to a robot gardener
DRONE: typically an IOT with wings with camera and in military contexts with gunpower, conversely humanly integral to monitoring nature from climate metrics to smart agriculture ..
Virtual Reality: Usually something you wear over your eyes often to play a game or to be (in some other experience than your physical one but potentially able to play with any human sense ; in parallel artificial intel is getting ever smarter at every human sense both to communicate (customise services) and to analyse
3d printing: things once sculptured or utilizing machine tools that chizzled out a solid artefact can now be built up in 3d by digital process
5G so far every decade has seen an exponential leap in amount of data connecting positions around the world; not everywhere has equal access to apps and data algorithms;
Blockchain-leaped into global concerns from 2008 (see paper by Satoshi); could blockchains provide best of both worlds: total privacy and total data modeling; could digital cash do a better job than paper cash and if so who's win and lose from such a transformation
Cloud : The times when computers stored all the data they needed are long gone: now they analyse data residing in clouds
Quantum the fastest number crunching computers in the world dont just use more memory power but quantum's new design