Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. How technologies impact sports in the digital age (Sascha L. Schmidt) -- Chapter 2. Taxonomy of Sports Tech (Nicolas Frevel) -- Chapter 3. How Thesis Driven Innovation Radars could benefit the sports industry (Sanjay Sarma) -- Chapter 4. How to predict the future of sports (Sascha L. Schmidt) -- Part II. Physical technologies -- Chapter 5. Robotics, automation, and the future of sports (Josh Siegel) -- Chapter 6. Robotics and AI: How technology may change the way we shape our bodies and what this does to the mind (Frank Kirchner) -- Chapter 7. The reach of sports technologies (Martin U. Schlegel) -- Chapter 8. The current state and future of regenerative sports medicine (Dietmar W. Hutmacher) -- Part III. Information processing technologies -- Chapter 9. Big data, Artificial Intelligence, and quantum computing in sports (Benno Torgler) -- Chapter 10. The data revolution: Cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning in the future of sports (Christina Chase).

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