The 5 Biggest Technology Trends In 2021 Everyone Must Get Ready For Now

what are the five biggest technology trends for 2021 i'm a futurist and business advisor and i help companies understand the major technology trends and i've captured this in my book tech trends in practice in which i look at the 25 biggest technology trends that will transform the next decade this was published just before the pandemic hit and what surprised me is that many of the tech trends i am talking about here have now been fast-tracked and accelerated by companies so what i want to do with this video is to look at the five mega trends that are helping businesses of all sizes and all shapes and all industries cope with this new pandemic situation and a post coronavized world the first trend that has been accelerated for 2021 is artificial intelligence and big data we now live in a world we need to make more real-time decisions companies realize that even if they had lots of data the data they had pre-pandemic is no longer relevant things are changing so fast so companies are now looking at streaming analytics analyzing real-time data predicting only based on the last 90 days instead of the last 10 years this is this has changed our world and it is bringing in capabilities from artificial intelligence as well so we can now automate lots of our data analysis companies are offering automated data warehouses that can look for trends themselves they can highlight things that are happening so i'm seeing this in retail where big retailers are learning from their systems by themselves saying where the systems will tell them these trends and cookies are going up alcohol sales are going up things are going down here and you can react to this in real time ai also helps companies to now address the economic reality of recessions where they want to streamline business processes artificial intelligence is the most powerful technology humankind has ever had access to and what ai can nowadays do is can it can read for us it can speak it can write it can um see analyze things in terms of videos and photographs it can hear and all of this is completely transforming organizations and is helping them to re-imagine and streamline their business processes the second technology trend for 2021 is robotics vehicle automations and drones what many companies now realizing is that there has been a vast economic cost to the pandemic and the world economies are shrinking so we're now facing a recession and organizations need to really think about how they can automate and streamline and improve their business operations and robots and automated vehicles and drones can help with all of this also what we've learned during the pandemic is that companies wanted to take people out of unnecessary necessary steps in their business processes or along their supply chains so companies like amazon are doing this very effectively where they're trying to automate as much of their warehouses as possible but they're also taking this across and along their supply chain where they're saying oh how can we potentially use drones to deliver parcels where i live in milton keynes we have already got robots that are delivering my grocery shopping to my door ford has developed developed a robotic postman that can actually deliver parcels even upstairs to people's houses there are lots of ways companies are reimagining the entire supply chain so companies like ups are using self-driving trucks um companies like daimler are already running self-driving trucks um companies like royce royce together with google are building self self floating ships that can autonomously steer the oceans so all our business processes are currently being automated and also they're helping us with this pandemic so in singapore the boston dynamics robotic dock called spot is now used to look at how people adhere to social distancing in their parks and the dog will use machine vision to detect how far people are passed apart if they find a cluster of large people it will walk up to them and tell them that they are not allowed to do this or organizations like heathrow airport is now using sanitizing robots that operate all night long to sanitize the entire terminal for the next day of operations so this is a major trend i talk about all of these trends in my book but this is one that has definitely been accelerated for 2021. the third trend is the sa service or the cloud computing 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 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 anymore 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 similarly to what you experience on amazon 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 than 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 in 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 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 re-imagine 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 make up 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 in t 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 them have a look also head to my youtube channel where i talk about all of these technology trends in more detail or have a look on my website where you can find thousands of articles

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Published: Sun Sep 13 2020