Touch technologies encourage interactivity in surprising ways -- people simply enjoy working with touch and appear to be more willing to explore with a tactile interface than with a mouse-driven environment.
Within the next five years, as self-driving technologies become more mainstream, the futurologists predict that many cars will converge with the high street.
The 2018 mission includes a lander and communications satellite, and aims to prove several mission critical technologies in addition to launch and landing.
This would help improve the energy efficiency of government sector, and the learning by doing impact would create early markets for energy-efficient technologies.