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1st place: Mobile Internet. According to McKinsey, affordable and powerful mobile computers with an internet connection are the biggest growth market of the future. It will be worth between 3.7 and 10.8 trillion US dollars in 2025. In three years, mobile Internet use will overtake that of desktop PCs. Technologies for wireless surfing, small computing and storage media such as smartphones, new display technologies and advanced battery systems will benefit. Wearable computers such as
smart watches or
cyber glasses are also part of this. The mobile, ubiquitous Internet will increase service and work productivity. Health monitoring via the Internet, for example, is able to minimize the costs of treating chronic diseases by a fifth.