Technology Trends 2017
- Taking the world by storm, new and innovative tech devices are heightening consumer lives in unexpected ways. Shining the spotlight on everything from emerging multimedia, mobile usage and smartphones designs, Trend Hunter’s tech category is showcasing the latest developments in cutting-edge technology.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often associated with sorting data--and occasionally a sci-fi fantasy robot scenario--but healthcare leaders are hoping to use machine learning to better identify and treat diseases. For example, clinicians hope with the help of machine learning, they will be able to more accurately identify cancerous tissue and healthy tissue via MRI and CT scans and better target radiation for cancers in the head and neck.
AI and intelligent things represent two of Gartner's Top 10 strategic technology trends that will have broad industry impact and significant potential for disruption.Digital business continues to align the physical and digital worlds, and technology will be embedded in everything in the digital business of the future. This combining of people, devices, content, and services is called the intelligent digital mesh, which serve as the three major trends for this years list.
1. IoT and Smart Home Tech.
We’ve been hearing about the forthcoming revolution of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and resulting interconnectedness of smart home technology for years. So what’s the holdup? Why aren’t we all living in smart, connected homes by now? Part of the problem is too much competition, with not enough collaboration—there are tons of individual appliances and apps on the market, but few solutions to tie everything together into a single, seamless user experience. Now that bigger companies already well-versed in uniform user experiences (like Google, Amazon, and Apple) are getting involved, I expect we’ll see some major advancements on this front in the coming year.
