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Imagine a day when lights come on as you walk through your house while the ambient temperature

adjusts room by room.

A kitchen table moves out of your way as you step toward the refrigerator, then moves back

when you're ready to eat.

If you fall while getting into bed, your furniture shifts to protect you

as an alert goes out to your family and the local monitoring station. This is spatial computing.

According to Scientific American, it could be the next big thing. Major companies, including

Amazon and Microsoft, are heavily investing in the technology to make this future our present.

All the objects in your home will be digitally cataloged.

All sensors and the devices that control objects will be Internet enabled,

and a digital map of your home will be merged with the object map.

Technologists foresee a day when such computing

will coordinate robots and their interactions with humans, the repair of machines and other

devices, and the most efficient delivery of emergency health care to patients. Scientific American

lists spatial computing among its top 10 emerging technologies

of 2020, along with microneedles, sun-powered chemistry, virtual patients, digital medicine,

electric aviation, low-carbon cement, quantum sensors for autonomous cars, green hydrogen,

and whole genome synthesis that will transform cell engineering. Flying cars are also apparently in our future, along with self-healing concrete,

computer vision, and caregiving robots. One writer predicts that the next 10 years will be

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