New age technology

摘要

FOR THE GOVERNMENT it is a ticking timebomb. For engineers it is a potentially massive new market. For most of us it is just a simple, nagging worry: who will look after me when I grow old? In the face of a major demographic shift, the government is pouring hundreds of millions of pounds into research into assistive technology - systems that can augment or even replace human carers. But some have accused it of failing to provide a proper structure for the research, allowing funds to be siphoned off into other areas and leaving a gap between development and delivery that could delay mass roll-out of the technology to a rapidly ageing population.