6 Tech Trends to look forward to in the New Year!

We live in an era of technology. We build and discover new ways of using technology almost every single day. From products to businesses, we have become innovative, smart and know what to do with the tech advances available at hand. Here is a short list of what you can anticipate will happen in the coming new year!

1. The Omnipresent Internet of everything – With more and more devices getting connected to the Internet, it would surely revolutionise the way data is collected and actions taken on that data. It would transform key sectors like transportation, healthcare, consumer goods retail, drastically improving the efficiencies and bringing realtime interactions to the forefront.

2. Wearables and wearable technology – VR headsets, smart watches, fitness bands, Google Glass, sensors and actuators embedded in athletic shoes – the exploding list of wearable devices just goes on. Wearable technology is poised as a 10 billion USD industry in itself. This just means that we will see a whole lot of mergers, consolidations and further refinements.

3. Rapid Prototyping – The manufacturing industry always had Rapid prototyping. But the recent advent of 3D printing technology is really bringing rapid prototyping to the masses. These printers are starting to become affordable and are no more only for the hobbyists. New designs and research in this area would surely mean that soon you’ll just order a design off the Internet and print the product yourself.

4. Context-aware technology – Personal assistants on your smartphone, natural language processing systems, intelligent cognitive computing systems like Watson and others are poised to intelligently dig into our data and provide replies to our questions in natural language. This would improve our decision making processes and would significantly assist in areas like healthcare and the likes.

5. Cloud computing – Needless to say, the era of personal computers is giving way to cloud computing at an unprecedented rate. The focus is on services rather than devices. Technologies like hybrid cloud will be the topmost priority for organisations and we will have all our data and computing on the cloud, if not already!

6. Data analytics – This has seen an explosive growth over the last few years already. These analytic systems would go a step further and help us do predictive analysis. Predictive analytics would influence everything right from civic infrastructure, our business modelling, down to our retail choices and decisions.

What what else you think will be making waves in technology in the new year 2017!

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