From: Young people’s technological images of the future: implications for science and technology education
Category | Code | Example | n | % pos/neg |
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Everyday devices (39%) | Transport, travel | We have shifted to electric cars | 54 | 72 / 0 |
Smart home | Overnight, robots would have cleaned and organised my apartment | 25 | 88 / 0 | |
Computers, phones… | We would have powerful and light computers | 21 | 76 / 14 | |
Wearables | People have smartwatches (…) to collect various types of information about our bodies | 18 | 44 / 0 | |
New interfaces | With the help of the restaurant's facial scanner, the payment process is effortless | 15 | 73 / 7 | |
VR, entertainment tech | many people prefer to live in the virtual world in their own homes | 15 | 53 / 35 | |
Digitalisation & automation (31%) | Automation, robotics | Manual labour is almost entirely done by machines | 38 | 39 /32 |
Internet, digitalisation | Data security on the internet has improved | 32 | 41 / 25 | |
Communication tech | Itʼs easy to get in touch with friends and family through 3D video calls | 28 | 61 / 7 | |
AI | My biggest concerns and fears include the speed at which artificial intelligence evolves | 24 | 71 / 4 | |
Technology in general (29%) | Technology in general | I would like to live in a place with highly advanced technology | 111 | 62 / 18 |
Production (10%) | Energy production | The development of renewable energy sources has been rapid | 26 | 85 / 4 |
Production, recycling | Many of our everyday items would be made from recyclable materials | 13 | 85 / 8 | |
Miscellaneous (14%) | Medicine, biotech… | various cancers and HIV, were cured by quantum chemistry | 23 | 73 / 18 |
Space, geoengineering... | Mars would be home to the first human settlement located on another planet | 8 | 75 / 0 | |
Science instruments | Advanced technology would be found (…) in state-of-the-art laboratories | 7 | 100 / 0 | |
Others | Ex. 1 Nuclear and hydrogen bombs would also still be a problem Ex. 2 Customs control may [use] new types of devices | 14 | 64 / 14 |