Digital progress changes the demands on consumers, employees or entrepreneurs. If you don't want to be left behind, you have to train for life. You should know these 10 IT trends today:
The "Human Augmentation" trend is about giving people a better feel or new skills. By using technology on or in the body of a person, the cognitive and physical experiences can be improved.
These can be simple wearables in the workplace that improve occupational safety or productivity. But there is also a lot more SciFi, as the four different types of human augmentation show:
So will we all be superheroes soon? And if everyone is a superhero, are superheroes still great at all? Questions after questions.
This prospect of course drives so-called experts upset: If everyone can learn everything for free, what value do I have as an expert and consultant? This fear is only partly justified, because "having knowledge" and "applying knowledge correctly" are still two pairs of shoes.
In the four key areas
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.
Multiexperience is the interaction with a computer on several levels, through several interfaces. Instead of sitting in front of a keyboard, we communicate here through sensors, microphones, cameras and other Internet of Things devices. The imagination knows no limits.
Starting with the simple wearable, the multiexperience can develop into a completely new world of immersive experience , in which a person interacts completely and with all senses in a virtual space with a computer.
Automation was yesterday. According to Gartner, the future of industry lies in hyper automation. It is no longer just a matter of having human and computer skills replaced by computers and robots, but rather using a complex combination of advanced technologies (hardware, software, artificial intelligence and "machine learning") in a continuous analysis and Make the adaptation process the absolutely most efficient automation 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 the AI-controlled decision making.
The development of artificial intelligence has so far been a private matter. If companies, as outlined above, could be managed by artificial intelligence instead of human managers in the future, then there are unpredictable dangers.
Experts have long warned of the consequences of deliberately caused 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 .
Closer to the truth, more trust and transparency in supply chains and money transactions, no fictional fees, no non-transparent cost models and no deliberate delays in transactions. The blockchain describes all of this quite well.
However, the technology currently “suffers” from poor scalability, consumes gigantic amounts of data and energy and can hardly communicate properly with other systems. Large parts of these problems are said to have been eliminated by 2023 - and thus the greatest obstacles to 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 recorded by its sensors.
As a PACE user, the cloud is of course no new territory for you. However, the new approach of some cloud providers could be new to you: The distribution of cloud services to different locations. Here, a provider still controls his services centrally and is responsible for all aspects of architecture, provision, maintenance and operation, but has common technical problems, such as B. resolved the latency of decentralization.
This point immediately follows the 5th AI security and 6th blockchain. The technological crisis of confidence will force us to focus on ethics, integrity, openness, accountability and consistency.
A big step in the right direction is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was adopted by the EU. Companies that violate the guidelines are sometimes fined very severely .
1. Human Augmentation
The "Human Augmentation" trend is about giving people a better feel or new skills. By using technology on or in the body of a person, the cognitive and physical experiences can be improved.
These can be simple wearables in the workplace that improve occupational safety or productivity. But there is also a lot more SciFi, 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 will we all be superheroes soon? And if everyone is a superhero, are superheroes still great at all? Questions after questions.
2. Democratization of expertise
That sounds pretty theoretical, but this trend is actually explained in one word: Wikipedia. In terms of technology and knowledge, the word "democratization" simply means that all people have access to technical or business expertise without having to invest a lot of time or money.This prospect of course drives so-called experts upset: If everyone can learn everything for free, what value do I have as an expert and consultant? This fear is only partly justified, because "having knowledge" and "applying knowledge correctly" are still two pairs of shoes.
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. Multiexperience
Multiexperience is the interaction with a computer on several levels, through several interfaces. Instead of sitting in front of a keyboard, we communicate here through sensors, microphones, cameras and other Internet of Things devices. The imagination knows no limits.
Starting with the simple wearable, the multiexperience can develop into a completely new world of immersive experience , in which a person interacts completely and with all 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 human and computer skills replaced by computers and robots, but rather using a complex combination of advanced technologies (hardware, software, artificial intelligence and "machine learning") in a continuous analysis and Make the adaptation process the absolutely most efficient automation 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 the AI-controlled decision making.
5. AI security
The development of artificial intelligence has so far been a private matter. If companies, as outlined above, could be managed by artificial intelligence instead of human managers in the future, then there are unpredictable dangers.
Experts have long warned of the consequences of deliberately caused 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 money transactions, no fictional fees, no non-transparent cost models and no deliberate delays in transactions. The blockchain describes all of this quite well.
However, the technology currently “suffers” from poor scalability, consumes gigantic amounts of data and energy and can hardly communicate properly with other systems. Large parts of these problems are said to have been eliminated by 2023 - and thus the greatest obstacles to 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 recorded by its sensors.
7. Distributed Cloud
As a PACE user, the cloud is of course no new territory for you. However, the new approach of some cloud providers could be new to you: The distribution of cloud services to different locations. Here, a provider still controls his services centrally and is responsible for all aspects of architecture, provision, maintenance and operation, but has common technical problems, such as B. resolved the latency of decentralization.
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 immediately follows the 5th AI security and 6th blockchain. The technological crisis of confidence will force us to focus on ethics, integrity, openness, accountability and consistency.
A big step in the right direction is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was adopted by the EU. Companies that violate the guidelines are sometimes fined very severely .
