Top Tech Trends for 2019
We are experiencing the fastest technological development and innovative breakthroughs as ever seen before. So we thought we would get even a bit ahead the curve to bring to you the foreseen top tech trends of 2019.
Do you have an idea of how new technology is going to change the game by next year? Check our list below and let us know whether you think it is accurate or something is missing.
Artificial Intelligence Battling
Everyone talks about Artificial Intelligence but during 2018 it seems to not have been going far. Everyone has an AI idea, but not all AI apps and brands make it to the top.
The right approach to perfection your AI is to have it interact and battle with another top AI. This is not only a time-saver but it will no longer require humans to analyze data and teach computers.
This independent approach will allow AIs to collect the specific data through self-machine and deep learning, that could make tech, scientific and health breakthroughs, to say the least. But it also put us humans on a corner, as explained in the article by Martin Giles, that it
“Will mark a big leap forward in what’s known in AI as ‘unsupervised learning.’ A self-driving car could teach itself about many different road conditions without leaving the garage. A robot could anticipate the obstacles it might encounter in a busy warehouse without needing to be taken around it.”
Blockchain-Based Identity & Privacy
Blockchain is the core of data collection and distribution, an ever-growing list of information linked through cryptography. But now, things are changing.
This year 2018 has taken a big leap privacy-wise, for instance with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union, with which the EU law protects data and privacy of all individuals within the EU.
You may have also noticed apps and software like WhatsApp telling you at the beginning of every conversation, that your chat is ‘encrypted’.
Blockchain will take a key position in the economy, where businesses will have to transition to this new reality, as people or consumers, will be the ones benefiting economically from purchasing and advertising more than the companies itself.
3D Metal Printing & 3D art
3D printers will change the game of the industry as we know it and escalate it to a whole new level. There are many uses given to 3D printing such as for medical purposes (printing of exoskeletons and limbs), (3D) metal printing seems to be the upcoming next big move.
Not only does it have a huge potential for the manufacturing of products for small and midsize businesses, but the production of printers itself can be optimized to have them take minimal space, with the same power, making factories a thing of the past.
Even though it still has a while to be implemented in the consumer sector, 3D printing is proof of the positive impact of innovation in the industry.
IoT — Internet Of Things
The Internet Of Things is our daily life gadgets that actually exchange our personal data by digitizing our current manual tasks.
As everything now can be made ‘smart’: smart cities, houses, cars, phones, heating, lighting, security systems… the sky’s the limit. This will improve the living standards but also the economy and the market.
Take for instance the massive construction development where China is building 19 supercity clusters, as reported by the World’s Economic Forum, “bigger cities lead to better knowledge sharing, labor markets and productivity.”
These supercities will be divided into smaller dozens of clusters around the main city and connected all together through high-speed underground bullet trains.
All with the goal of increasing production and hence, allowing the country to become a leader of the world’s economy.
Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality
Without going any further, we can start by mentioning the big boom that the app game called ‘Pokemon Go’ made between 2016/2017, where only by owning a smartphone, you could stroll around anywhere in the world, through your town, capturing Pokemons and interacting and challenging with other users in real time.
Now, VR and AR are also entering other fields like education, with companies offering you to create your own VR courses, and health software, for instance, which are being developed to allow medical visits from home, among more uses that are forecast up to 2023.
Cloud Computing
Google, Amazon and Microsoft offer online services like information research, shopping, communication, and charge depending on the usage. This takes away the need for any company to set up their own IT, but having it online and available anywhere, any time.
Big Data & Datafication
Currently, we are struggling with storing the huge amount of data that we have and continuously keep creating, on an international level.
“Apache Hadoop, NoSQL, Sqoop, are some of the big data tools. This Big Data technology will play a vital role in helping the talent acquisition team to hire top talents available in the market.” — says Anastasia Williams in her article at TechPcVipers, “you will see these making headlines in the latest technology news of 2019.”
All this only being the tip of the iceberg, is already overwhelming, as some predict that we may end up with that humans will become less and less influential in the field of technology, to a point where machines will interact better by themselves or with other computers.
However -today we still have the choice of what kind of impact and difference we want to make.
