Top 10 Trending Technologies
When it comes to trending technologies, change really is the only constant. Technologies in demand just a few years ago may be obsolete now, and exciting tech right now may not be relevant shortly in the future. It’s a concept that evolves at a fairly rapid pace. By the time we have a complete grasp over one particular technology, it may be outdated. People in this field are, therefore, life-long learners till they retire. Due to the increasing potential of growth in the technologies mentioned in this post, skills in these areas can come in extremely handy in the near future for your job and career.
Trend #1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) & IoT
Artificial Intelligence (AI) involves development of software that enables machines including computers and robots to perform specific functions with human intelligence or even higher. Today AI enabled machines can perform tasks like facial recognition and Internet search. Some machines can even drive cars.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning will automate many professional and everyday tasks, from truck driving to ship piloting, handling customer calls – and even conducting rudimentary conversations with them.
Trend #2. Machine learning
AI and ML are two distinct terms often used in place of the other, but there’s a fine line between the two. ML is actually a subset of AI. Machine learning refers to the ability of a machine to learn things on its own based on experience. Using ML, tools can be programmed to observe and analyze data and find patterns from which they learn how to process newer data on their own.
Machine Learning is being used in various sectors like recommendation systems on entertainment platforms like Netflix, real-time ads, web search results, etc
Trend #3. Internet of Things IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network consisting of machines and devices connected to data-sharing, typically via the internet. Home automation is one of the major applications of IoT. Home appliances connect to devices and remain just a tap or a voice command (in the case of a virtual assistant) away for their operations.
Trend #4. Data Science
Data Science is the process of obtaining insights and information and everything that is worth knowing out of a given data. And it requires machines to interpret, process and alter digital data. Machine learning algorithms are applied to big data that includes numbers, texts, images, video and audio to generate valuable insights.
Trend #5. Intelligence Apps
As the name suggests, this technology uses the concept of AI to design apps to help us delegate menial tasks on devices. These are applications capable of giving suggestions and making predictions by analyzing user interactions from real-time and historical data from different sources.
Some applications include virtual chatbots and virtual assistants like Siri or Alexa.
Trend #6. Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
It’s an exciting time to work in the robotics industry. Driven by the growing diversification of the industry, the global sector, whose revenues today total more than $ 100 billion, has experienced rapid growth in recent years.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology is used for computer generated robots to capture and interpret data to complete different tasks including processing transactions, data manipulation, triggering a response and communicating with other digital devices. It is useful for businesses involving high volume of highly transactional process functions.
Trend #7. Cyber security
Also called IT security or systems security, cybersecurity consists in protecting the integrity of data, sensitive or not, within a digital infrastructure. is the practice of preventing digital data stored in computer devices including mobiles and tabs from cyber thefts and hackers.
Trend #8. Virtual Reality
Virtual reality or VR is an immersive, visual, sound and/or haptic interactive computer simulation of real or imaginary environments.
To achieve its immersive objective, the vector of virtual reality takes the form of glasses or a helmet connected to a smartphone or a computer.
Virtual Reality (VR) technology allows creating a three-dimensional, computer-generated environment for real human experience. A user can become part of VR and experience the environment.
Trend #9. Cloud / Edge Computing
Cloud computing is a technology that allows remote access – via the Internet – to IT resources. These resources are part of the infrastructure (server, storage and network; it is then an IaaS offer for “Infrastructure as a Service”) or software (SaaS for “Software as a Service”).
It ensures that fewer processes run in cloud by shifting those processes to computers like IoT devices and other local places. It puts an end to long-distance communication between a client and a server.
Trend #10. Blockchain
Blockchain is Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)that allows data to be stored across hundreds and thousands of servers globally and allowing those servers to check each-other’s entries in real time. Based on peer-to-peer (P2P) topology, Blockchain create a network of entries that defies control by single user. There are public blockchains, open to everyone, and private blockchains, with limited and controlled access.
Among the projects made possible by the Blockchain we can cite cryptocurrencies (bitcoin, ethereum, monero etc.) but the blockchain can be used for other applications. Many experts believe today that it will be the basis of the next technological revolution.