What are the 10 disruptive Tech Trends for 2021? A focus on future farming

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#FutureReady The 10 disruptive #TechTrends expected for the upcoming year(s). All of them apply also to #FutureAg. Starting from a paper by Priya Dialani on Analytical Insight, I share my agriculture-related thoughts.

• 5G mainstreaming. Relevant if the connection will be guaranteed also in rural areas
• Ethical AI — The algorithmization of farming practices is extracting and formalizing entrepreneurial knowledge from farmers: who will take the added valuer?
• Integration of AR Glasses — Already used in the agmachinery industry either for enhancing manufacturing (like AGCO) or maintenance (like Kuhn)
• Reevaluation of automation roadmap — #AgriculturalRobotics is steadily booming (Just have a look at the next FIRA — International Forum of Agricultural Robotics)
• Customer data platforms (CDP) — The number of actors and solutions trying to harmonize and integrate the multiple agricultural data sources is constantly growing, calling for the definition of new interoperability standards
• Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS) — Telemetry is highlighting two added values for agriculture: the improvement of machinery use and the enhancement of machine and implement design
• Cloud-native technologies — The IoT is being specifically developed as #InternetOfFarming across the supply chain.
• Cybersecurity mesh — Probably the biggest underestimated issue in agricultural digitalization
• Hyperlocal business operations — The shortening of the supply chain, partly enabled by digitalization, is expected to create new added value for agricultural productions
• Quantum Computing — As far as it will improve the climate change modelling it will directly impact the design of future farming

The 10 Disruptive Tech Trends of 2021

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