As the new year approaches, we all start getting excited about our plans for the year ahead, but many people are also fascinated by what tech trends are on the horizon – as keeping up to speed with the latest developments can prove to be incredibly profitable. In this article, we’re going to take a look at four of the most notable trends sent to take off in the new year.
1. THE NEED FOR HEIGHTENED CYBER SECURITY
Today, government’s are investing heavily in their ability to mitigate and tackle cybersecurity threats, as today, that pose even greater risks to companies, organizations, and countries than conventional theft.
Whilst many countries will remain on high alert for terrorist attacks, in the conventional sense, a new breed of sophisticated criminal and terrorist is at large – meaning, many more resources will be invested in areas of cybersecurity.
We’ve already seen the damage ransomware attacks can cause on huge organizations, and the trend of criminals taking to cybercrime rather than physical crime is an increasing concern. Indeed, one of the largest areas of growth within IT is the security sector.
2. REMOTE WORKING
The trend for computers to undertake the more repetitive and time-consuming tasks that humans once struggled to do in double the time, means people are now focusing more on intellectual pursuits – thinking of strategy and the like, meaning, they can work more flexible.
The social structure of the workplace is already undergoing substantial shifts in terms of enabling people to embrace the “freedom lifestyle” that allows them to work from home, or anywhere else in the world, presuming they have an internet connection.
3. AUTOMATION
The threat of robots taking over human jobs has become more and more apparent in recent times, yet as we enter this new age of automation, the majority of technologies that exist and are being developed will help us become more efficient in our personal and professional lives – for instance algo trading will help people manage their investment portfolio with more accuracy and precision – without having to have their eyes glued to their screen.
Similarly, as we move toward driverless cars, this will free up a lot of time that would otherwise be used up on driving. Today, as we make fast progress toward intelligent vehicles that can drive themselves, we are finding a whole new world of convenience, speed and productivity will be opening up to us… albeit, driverless cars are not going to become the “norm” anytime soon.
4. PERSONALISATION
Personalisation is slowly starting to shift into being an expectation rather than a ‘nice to have’, and in 2019, it’s predicted that consumers will view personalisation as a “standard” with regard to marketing and shopping.
Yet, personalisation extends way beyond marketing; as today we are looking at personalised medicine that is being created to be aligned with the unique and individual needs of a particular person based on their genetics and state of their body – with the view, that one day, personalised medicine will be able to help shift a person’s biology back to a state of homeostasis, and one day, not too far away – it’s possible that with better medicine and state of the art artificial intelligence… we could be living much longer lives.
