The market research company Gartner Inc. meets once a year to bring together the most important technology trends for the coming year. In the opinion of the experts, we can expect a few superhuman changes in 2021.
Digital progress is changing the demands on consumers, employees and entrepreneurs. If you don't want to be left behind, you have to continue your education. You should know these 10 IT trends today:
1.Human Augmentation :
The “Human Augmentation” trend is about giving people a better feel or new skills. Using technology on or in a person's body can improve cognitive and physical experiences.
These can be simple wearables in the workplace that improve occupational safety or productivity. But it is also much more SciFi-heavy, as the four different types of human augmentation show:
- Sensory improvement (see, hear, feel)
- Improvement of extremities and body functions (prostheses and exoskeletons)
- Brain tuning (e.g. through implants)
- Genetic improvement (e.g. gene and cell therapies)
So are we all going to be superheroes soon? And if everyone is a superhero, are superheroes still great? Question after question.
2.Democratization of specialist knowledge:
That sounds pretty theoretical, but this trend can actually be explained in one word: Wikipedia. When it comes to technology and knowledge, the word “democratization” simply means that everyone has access to technical or business expertise without having to invest a lot of time or money.
Of course, this prospect drives so-called experts crazy for the time being: If everyone is allowed to learn everything for free, what is my value as an expert and consultant? This fear is only partially founded, because “having knowledge” and “applying knowledge correctly” are still two different things.
In the four key areas
- development
- Data and analytics
- design
- Knowledge
in any case, according to Gartner, it will soon be very public. The fact is that the democratization of knowledge is a step towards equal opportunities.
3. Multi-experience:
Multiexperience is the interaction with a computer on several levels, through several interfaces. Instead of sitting in front of a keyboard, we communicate here using sensors, microphones, cameras and other Internet of Things devices. The imagination knows no limits.
Starting with the simple wearable, the multi-experience can develop into a completely new world of immersive experience, in which a person interacts completely and with all their senses in a virtual space with a computer.
4.Hyper automation:
Automation was yesterday. According to Gartner, the future of industry lies in hyper-automation. It is no longer just a matter of having a person's handgrips and skills replaced by computers and robots, but rather with a complex combination of advanced technologies (hardware, software, artificial intelligence and "machine learning") in a constant analysis and To make the adjustment process the absolutely most efficient automation that is possible.
Hyper-automation creates a “digital twin”, an intelligent, digital copy of the real system that can be used as a representative test field for all optimization measures. The goal of such automation processes is usually AI-controlled decision-making.
5. AI security:
The development of artificial intelligence was previously a private matter. If, as outlined above, companies could be operationally managed by artificial intelligence instead of human managers in the future, then incalculable dangers would arise.
Experts have long warned of the consequences of deliberately induced malfunctions; Scientists call for action. So that artificial intelligence does not become a weapon of criminals or get out of control for other reasons, it must always be controlled and regulated by humans now and in the future.
6. Practical blockchain:
Closer to the truth, more trust and transparency in supply chains and in money transactions, no fictitious fees, no opaque cost models and no deliberate delays in transactions. All of this describes the blockchain quite well.
However, the technology currently "suffers" from poor scalability, devours gigantic amounts of data and energy and can hardly communicate properly with other systems. Large parts of these problems should have been resolved by the year 2023 - and thus the biggest obstacles in the practical application of the blockchain would be removed.
In the future, additional technologies such as artificial intelligence and IoT devices should be easy to integrate into the chain. For example, a car could negotiate its own insurance prices directly with the insurance company based on the data captured by their sensors.
7. Distributed cloud:
As a PACE user, the cloud is of course no longer new territory for you. However, the new approach of some cloud providers could be new for you: The distribution of cloud services to different locations. A provider continues to control its services centrally and is responsible for all aspects of architecture, provision, maintenance and operation, but has frequent technical problems, such as B. the latency through decentralization solved.
8. Empowered Edge:
We wrote about edge computing (or “empowered edge”) a few months ago in the technology trends for 2019. Not much has changed since then. Empowered Edge is about reducing latency through decentralization (the information is simply processed closer to the sources).
9. Transparency and traceability:
This point directly follows points 5. AI security and 6. Blockchain. The technological crisis of confidence will force us to focus on ethics, integrity, openness, accountability and persistence.
A big step in the right direction is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was passed by the EU. Companies that violate the guidelines are sometimes subject to very high fines.
10. Autonomous things:
Surprise! (not) - Autonomous objects will continue to be on the rise in 2021. The practical helpers move into our everyday life with seemingly agonizing slowness. The main reason for the lack of the big wow factor is that new, high-quality technologies belong to those who have the necessary money. When will everyone benefit from it? We stay excited.
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