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Gartner announces “Advanced Technology Hype cycle: 2020”

A condensed analysis of the same is as
Focusing on a series of technologies that are likely to bring a competitive advantage over the next 5 to 10 years, after analysing more than 1,700 technologies, the findings were extracted and summarised into 30 advanced technologies and 5 trends.

The five Gartner technology trends are
“Digital Me”,
“Composite Architecture”,
“Formative AI”,
“Algorithm Trust”,
“Beyond Silicon”.

Digital Me: As the integration of technology and people progresses new opportunities are being created to digitally express people, such as — digital passports and social distance technology.
Technologies included in this category include “Human Digital Twin,” “Health Passport,” and “Citizen Twin,” which are all in the dawn of the Hype Cycle.

Composite architecture: In order to become an agile organisation, technologies included in the category of composite architecture are “Composable Enterprise,” “Data Fabric,” “Private 5G,” and “Embedded AI.”

Formative AI: Refers to a series of advanced AI and related technologies that dynamically change according to situation.
The technologies included in this category include “AI extended development”, “Ontology/Graph”, “Composite AI”, “Adaptive machine learning”, “Self-supervised learning”, and “Generative AI”.
Companies aiming to search for the boundaries of AI should consider these technologies.

Algorithmic trust: The authority-based trust model is transformed into an algorithmic trust model. The technology associated with such algorithmic trust also ensures that companies are not exposed to the risk and cost of losing customer or employee trust.
Examples include technologies such as “SASE” (Secure Access Service Edge), “differential privacy”, “business use of personally owned identity” (BYOI), and “responsible AI”.

Beyond Silicon: As semiconductor technology, which has driven the IT industry until now according to Moore’s Law, is approaching its physical limits, Any new cutting-edge materials will bring breakthrough opportunities to enable technology acceleration and miniaturisation.
Technologies that should be considered as “beyond silicon” include “DNA computing/storage”, “biodegradable sensors”, and “carbon-based transistors”.

Advanced technologies are disruptive in nature. How competitive they are is not yet well known or market proven. Most technologies will take more than 5–10 years to reach the end of the term, but some of the technologies featured in this hype cycle will mature quickly, so anybody in the space of technology innovation should be aware …