by Andrew Kirima

How the Acceleration of Technology will Impact the Business World

Andrew Kirima
Nerd For Tech
Published in
7 min readAug 18, 2020

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The future is here! Mankind is embarking on a new age. A new paradigm supported by the irreversible growth of technology. “Technology is accelerating”, as said by futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil’s “Law of Accelerating Returns”, has convinced entrepreneur’s Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler, that the convergence of technology within the next decade will lead to a colossal change in the way we live our lives. As technology accelerates, the business world will respond in fashion

This enormous growth in technology will entirely reconstruct the business world as we see it today. Enterprises that take advantage of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing, Blockchain, Quantum Computing, Nanotechnology, AR/VR, Robotics, etc. will have the most dynamic growth in this decade. As these technologies converge and grow together, businesses that implement these tools will become more efficient and save a lot of capital that could be invested elsewhere. This all starts with the comfortability of their employees as they adopt the capability to work from anywhere they want.

Working remotely

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic a lot of companies needed to switch to remote working immediately. Companies such as Zoom and Microsoft have developed platforms for…

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Andrew Kirima
Nerd For Tech

Analyst at Cantos Ventures || Founding Contributor at Deep Tech Insider (DTI)