7 Dopest Technology Innovation in 2020

Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution, where technology is changing more rapidly than ever. Organizations and individuals who are not up to some of the most significant technological changes risk left behind. Understanding key developments will help people and companies to plan and take advantage of the opportunities. As a forward-looking business and technology strategist, my job is to look ahead and recognize the new trends. In this article, I discuss the seven inevitable trends for which everyone is expected to be ready in 2020.

5G data networks

The 5th generation of mobile internet access will provide us with super-fast download and upload speeds and more reliable connections. While 5 G mobile data networks were first available in 2019, they were still mainly costly and worked in confined areas and major cities. 2020 is likely the year when 5 G begins operating, with more accessible data plans and much better coverage so that everyone can participate.

Super-fast internet uplinks will not only give us the ability to upload files and music on the go. But also, considerably higher speeds make mobile networks more useful than cable networks in our homes and industries. The market implications of having super-fast and stable Internet access everywhere must be taken into consideration by companies. The increased capacity will allow computers, robots and self-supporting vehicles to capture and transfer more data than ever, which contributes to advancement in the area of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart machinery.

AI-as-a-service

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the utmost innovative technological developments of our time. Most companies have started to consider how they can use AI to improve customer experience and to simplify their business activities. As I found out in my book "Artificial intelligence in practice." This will begin in 2020, and while people become more and more used to working alongside AIs, developing and deploying our own AI systems will continue to be an expensive proposition for most companies.

Therefore, many of AI's applications will continue to be performed through service providers, enabling us just to feed our own data and pay for algorithms or computing resources while using them.

At present, these solutions, delivered by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, respectively, appear to be somewhat broad-based and personalized (often expensive) to cater to the specific tasks that an enterprise may need. In 2020, we will see wider adoption and that pool of providers that will begin to provide more tailor-made apps and services for unique and specialized tasks. It means that no business has any justification for not using AI.

Extended Reality

Extended Reality (XR) is an all-round term that covers several new and emerging technology used to create digital environments. In particular, it relates to augmented, enhanced, and mixed reality. Virtual reality (VR) offers an entirely technologically immersive experience while viewing an environment created by machines through goggles that incorporate the real world. Enhanced reality (AR) overlays real-world virtual objects by smartphone screens or screens (think Snapchat filters). Mixed reality (MR) is the extension of AR, which allows users to interact with real-world digital objects (figure to play a holographic piano, which you put on your room with an AR headset).

Such devices have been everywhere for a few years now, but they mostly confined to the entertainment world–with Oculus Rift & Vive headsets offering the most modern video game and mobile apps such as a screen filters and Pokemon Go-style games.

By 2020, all this expected to change, as businesses address the vibrant and exciting possibilities provided by both existing XR modes. Virtual and augmented environments are becoming more popular for learning and simulation and offering new ways of interacting with consumers.

Personalized and predictive medicine

At present, technology is changing healthcare at a pace unparalleled. Our ability to capture information from wearable technologies such as smartwatches would enable us to anticipate and manage people's health conditions even before they have any symptoms.

We will see much more tailored methods when it comes to diagnosis. The technique is also called precision medicine, which helps physicians, due to a data-based understanding of how beneficial we are going to be for a specific patient, to prescribe drugs or implement therapies more accurately.

Although it is not an innovative idea, it gives us a better understanding of how different people's bodies are stronger or better equipped to battle specific diseases and how they can respond to various types of medications or treatments thanks to recent technological advances, especially in the areas of genomics and AI.

In 2020, we will see innovative predictive healthcare technologies and the implementation of more tailored, effective treatments to guarantee better results for individual patients.

Computer Vision

In terms of software, "Vision" requires devices that are capable of recognizing visual image images, locations, items, and individuals–captured from a camera or sensor. This technology enables the smartphone camera to identify what part of the image it captures is a face and powerful technologies like Google Image Search.

As we go through 2020, we will see tools and technology equipped with computer vision applied for an increasing amount of use. It is essential to the way efficient vehicles "see" or maneuver around risk. Production lines use computer vision cameras to track defective products and equipment failures, and security cameras are capable of alerting us to anything unusual, without 24/7 supervision.

The computer vision also helps to identify the face, of which we will hear a lot in 2020. In the FaceID case of Apple, we've already seen how useful the technology is in controlling access to our smartphones and how Dubai airport uses it to make the customer travel easier. But as use cases expand in 2020, we will also have more discussions on restricting the use of this technology because of its latent for privacy infringement and state control like' Big Brother.'

Autonomous Driving

Although we are still not at the point where we can expect to regularly travel in autonomous vehicles or even see them in 2020, they will undoubtedly continue to generate a lot of excitement.

The chief Tesla Elon Musk said that he expected his company to create an "absolute" autonomous vehicle by this year and will gradually see the number of cars capable of operating with a reduced degree of autonomy, such as automatic braking and lane changes. Besides, other non-driving in-car systems, such as security and entertainment features, will increasingly be automated and rely on data capture and analysis. Google's sister company, Waymo, recently completed a taxi trial in California, where more than 6200 people transported in the first month.

Of course, it is not just vehicles–trucking and shipping are becoming more autonomous, and the breakthroughs in this field are likely to continue in the headlines throughout 2020.

As the autonomous driving technology matures, we are also more and more aware of the measures taken by the regulators, policymakers, and officials. Changes in policy, current infrastructures, and social attitudes will all be needed before autonomous driving becomes a practical reality for most of us. In 2020, we will likely begin to see a discussion on autonomous driving outside of the technological world as more and more people come to think that the problem is not' if,' but' if,' that it will become a reality.

Blockchain Technology

Blockchain is a scientific phenomenon I have dealt with extensively this year, but if you discuss it in a non-technological company you will still be in a new state. 2020 may be the year everything changes. Blockchain is primarily a virtual archive used for documenting transactions but protected because of its authenticated and decentralized design. In 2019, some critics suggested that the technology was over-hyped and not as active as initially thought. Continued investments such as FedEx, IBM, Walmart, and Mastercard are probably beginning to show real-world results during 2019, and if they succeed in proving their case, smaller players could quickly lead to increasing adoption.

And if things plan, 2020 will also see the release of Facebook's own Blockchain-based Libra Crypto, which will be very interesting at the moment.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/09/30/the-7-biggest-technology-trends-in-2020-everyone-must-get-ready-for-now/#16f840622261

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