The Top Technology Trends For 2020

From buying movie tickets to watching your favourite series online, gambling in a land-based casino to playing phone scratch games, technology has changed our day to day lives. Understanding the key patterns in technology will enable you to embrace opportunities in the future. Here are the top technology trends for the following year.

Hyper automation

Hyper automation allows machines to follow a certain set of procedures automatically, thereby reducing errors and saving human capital. Different machine learning software and automation tools are combined to deliver work. Understanding the automation mechanisms, how they are related to each other and how they can be combined is a major focus of hyper-automation.

Hyper automation improves the quality of work by eliminating the jobs that can be tedious, tiring or dangerous for humans. As machines are calibrated for precision, automation can also reduce the risk of human errors.

Autonomous driving

Autonomous vehicles capable of sensing their environment and operating without human involvement will create a lot of excitement in the following year. A recent study by experts found that if the trends like vehicle automation, vehicle electrification and ridesharing are adopted correctly, they will unleash the full potential of autonomous driving. Autonomous cars have the potential to reduce accidents by 90%, save fuel and time, and reduce congestion as well as parking utilisation. Autonomous driving will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80% around the world in the coming years.

Human Augmentation

Human augmentation aims to enhance human abilities through medicine or technology. Augmented action is achieved by sensing human actions and mapping them in the real environment. Some exciting augmentation technologies include “haptic eyes” that lets the user feel what the camera sees and “aided eyes” that enhances the user’s cognitive abilities by matching currently viewed objects with previously saved information. Increasing levels of physical and cognitive human augmentation will become more prevalent in the coming years. Human augmentation provides an excellent opportunity to realise the possibilities enabled by modern technologies, benefiting humanity in unprecedented ways.  

Distributed cloud

Distributed cloud is the application of cloud computing technologies to interconnect data and applications offered from different locations around the globe. In simple words, distributed means that something is shared among multiple systems which may also be in different geographical locations. A recent Gartner article states that the current 10 per cent of enterprise-generated data created and processed outside a cloud will reach 50% by 2022. For data that needs to be processed close to its source, many organizations and businesses will take the help of data centres to augment their computing ecosystem for cloud-native apps.

Practical blockchain

Blockchain technology has the ability to provide a cheaper and faster alternative to traditional payments methods. The technology will provide guaranteed and real-time transactions processing speeds, and will also lower the money remittance costs. Smart contracts are one of the most powerful applications of blockchain. These contracts can oversee all aspects of your agreement and they can also be entirely self-executing.