Latest tech trends
EU DigiTOUR Project | 15 July, 2022
The revolution of technology is moving faster than ever, causing the acceleration of the rate of change. Especially after the outbreak of COVID-19, the role of IT professionals has become considerably useful to keep up the pace with these fast changes, with them continuously committed in learning, unlearning and relearning.
Take a look at the latest trends on which experts, but also people without a similar background, should put their hands on:
- Artificial Intelligence: having already received significant attention during the past decade, it has started to be considered more when it changed the ways in which we live, work and play. It is expected that the AI market will grow to a $190 billion industry by 2025¹ and it will leave a significant impact upon every industrial sector, but especially in the studying of the customers’ behavior, thanks to the analysis of data in real time and to the enhancement of personalized experiences
- Robotic Process Automation (RPA): like the machine learning of AI, also RPA is becoming more useful to automate business processes by quickly processing transactions, dealing with data and even replying to emails. The future thanks to an instrument like this will be way more efficient!
- Edge computing: we all know the fact that huge quantities of data are significantly processed everyday and stored in ‘clouds’, the only instruments able to deal with infinite numbers of information at the same time. However, given the fact that sometimes problems arise in the processing of this data, edge computing is designed to help solve the latency caused by cloud computing. Edge computing can be used to process time-sensitive data in remote locations with limited or no connectivity to a centralized location, acting like mini datacenters to make ready every data needed
- Augmented and Virtual Reality: these technologies, coming from the video games world, have started to become part of our lives because of their significant potential for training, entertainment, education, marketing and also for medical reasons. For Christmas 2019 14 million of AR/VR devices were sold and the market is expected to be worth $209.2 billion².
- Internet of Things (IoT): the future of our lives will see interconnected devices and as consumers we are already seeing the benefits of this trend: we can now lock doors remotely, control home appliances through a smartphone and we can use our devices as a magic wand during our everyday lives. Forecasts suggest that by 2030 around 50 billion³ of these IoT devices will be in use around the world, creating a massive web of interconnected devices spanning everything from smartphones to kitchen appliances.
- Cyber security: it is usually given for granted, but cyber security is of utmost importance because threats are always behind the corner with the Internet. Cybersecurity will remain a trending technology because it will constantly evolve to defend against hackers and enterprises should consider implementing an efficient barrier against every dangerous attack.
In short, the future relies more and more on technology, and it is important to stay up to date and prepared for the new tech era. The revolution has started!
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¹ Source https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/artificial-intelligence-market-74851580.html
² Source: https://techjury.net/blog/virtual-reality-statistics/#gref
³ Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/802690/worldwide-connected-devices-by-access-technology/)
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