The Biggest Technology Trends In 2021
The trend is the same service or the cloud computing the revolution that we're experiencing at the moment what we've seen again during this pandemic is that our work process has changed people are now working from home. people are now shopping completely differently and all of this is enabled by this new cloud infrastructure if you just think about zoom video conference calling was something that very few people did before the pandemic nowadays everyone is completely used to this and zoom saw a huge spike in their demand but because they had the cloud infrastructure in the background.
The Biggest Technology Trends In 2021 |
They could very
easily scale their operations up to then deliver the demand that was required
so my first two tech trends I talked about artificial intelligence and robots
and automation of vehicles all of this is now also available as a service so
very similar to cloud computing I can now go to companies like Microsoft or
Google or Honda and say can you give me a robot if you want a security robot or
warehousing robot you can simply rent those as a service the company will come
to you program them for you and then you simply a bit like an employee you have
them as long as you need them and then you give them back if you don't need
them any more artificial intelligence is also sometimes scary for companies we
can now rent ai as a service so companies like again Microsoft amazon google
are offering all of these capabilities so if you want to have a recommendation engine
on your website that recommends products similar to what you experience on
Amazon now makes this available for you as a service using the same powerful algorithm they're using themselves so this for me is a massive trend
that will carry on in 2021 the fourth trend is faster networks and 5g basically
this is enabling all the previous trends I was talking about so we need faster
networks to be able to work from home we need fast networks to access cloud computing
we need fast networks and connectivity to have robots and cars driving around in in in the open world and 5g is a key enabler to all of this because 5g will
basically mean that we'll have powerful fast connectivity faster the than
the um connectivity we have in our offices nowadays with fiber-optic lines will
have those on the go so it means that robots or devices will have connectivity
to the cloud, they can stream data analyze data and this is enabling everyone to
access all the services I've just talked about not even in their confined
offices or home. homes but anywhere they go the last trend being fast-tracked
for 2021 and one I cover in my book is extended reality so how we use virtual
and especially augmented reality to change our behaviors and how we change our
business processes again in my last trend I talked about 5g 5g is enabling augmented
reality and virtual reality anywhere so at the moment we are still confined to
if we want to do virtual reality to goggles we need to have a strong wi-fi
connections fast internet speeds good computer processing available 5g and fast
networks will mean we have this in a mobile environment my Facebook has just
launched VR glasses that look like sunglasses so the technology is developing
very fast and this is helping companies to reimagine their business processes
and their customer service experiences especially what we've learned in the pandemic
that we might not want to go into a retail shop where we try on glasses where
we try on hats where we try on clothes virtual reality and augmented reality
makes this possible that we do this completely online in a virtual world we
have a virtual avatar that can try on our clothes we use augmented reality to
try on glasses makeup anything we want to try we can try before we buy without
actually interacting with any human being and this is a trend that will see massive
acceleration in 2021 and it will also to some extent change our meetings we
have at the moment we have zoom meetings and team meetings but they're all int
2d we're on a screen in the future we can put our headsets on and we can
immerse ourselves and actually feel that we're in meeting rooms with people we
have we can completely reimagine the whole event industry where you can imagine
going to an industry show meeting people but you do this in virtual reality these
are all trends I talk about in my book tech trends and practice so if you want
to dive in more and see many of these accelerated tech trends and learn more about
they have a look also head to my YouTube channel where I talk about all of
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