Akinwale A. Akinpelu, David W. Blodgett, Glenn E. Mitzel, Morgana M. Trexler, Kaushik A. Iyer, William G. Bath, Lynn M. Reggia, David B. Helmer, Ashutosh Dutta, Nancy F. Andersen, and Jerry A. Krill

Abstract

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) will celebrate its centennial in 2042, about 20 years from the time of this writing. As the Lab looks toward this milestone, a team comprising APL staff members who are fellows of several premier technical societies or APL master inventors predicted which innovations and technologies might become global trends by 2042 and, consequently, could be considered as potential elements in APL’s science and technology strategy. This article describes their predictions.

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