The rate at which technology advances is quite alarming. It is so fast that if you blink twice many things are already obsolete. Some of the new technology developments that will be trending in 2017 are outlined below.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
This is the process of making inanimate objects take their own decisions and also take necessary steps with little or no human intervention. When this process is taking place, the object is believed to be exhibiting artificial intelligence. There are several simple ways you encounter artificial intelligence. A very common one is through video games especially in fighting games and soccer. Artificial intelligence occurs when you play against the computer.
Another instance of artificial intelligence is the simple text prediction that occurs when you are typing on your phone. As you type the second letter of a particular word, the phone brings up several words that start with those two letters for you to select. It makes typing a whole lot faster.
- Smart Cars
Automobile giants are working with tech companies to produce a car that can drive itself. Imagine having to sit in the car and indicate your destination and that’s all. You don’t have to be behind the wheels. You can be busy with your phone all through the trip and you will be notified when you get to your destination
- Virtualization of IT Resources
Since it is much cheaper to outsource IT activities to a third party service provider, a lot of companies have adopted the technology and this technology entails the virtualization of storage facilities, desktop and other business applications. Obviously, more companies will adopt it in 2017.
- Use of Virtual Reality for Surgical Procedures
The emergence of Virtual Reality for surgical procedures has made removal of tumor a lot easier for surgeons. Surgeons now make use of virtual reality to locate the exact position of a tumor in the body and this helps them determine the best place to make incision to be able to remove tumor without causing much damages.
- The use of Bitcoins
Bitcoin is becoming more popular as a means of money transfer that is very secure and also offers decentralized transactions. Its biggest advantage is that Bitcoins can be used to transfer several items of values like bonds, real estate titles and insurance policies to mention a few.
- The use of Drones
Before now, drones were only used by the military but now, technology has expanded the use of drones. More applications have been installed in more recent drones to make them useful for different kinds of tasks. They are used for search and rescue purposes. They are also used in agriculture to check crops, monitor fences and monitor cattle. They are also used to take aerial photography. It is believed that drones will be deployed for more uses in 2017.
- The shift to mobile applications
These days, the internet is more accessed via mobile devices than via personal computers so mobile applications are getting more important than desktop applications. Companies have now aligned their business activities for smooth mobile accessibility. The shift from desktop applications to mobile applications will be bigger next year.
- Wearable applications like Apple and Samsung smart watches
These watches have a lot of functions like allowing you to pick your calls, make calls, read received text messages and reply them on the watch. It saves you the pain of having to bring out your phone every time you receive a call or a text message. It is believed that more brands will manufacture smart watches for their devices next year.
- Advanced Cloud computing services
The benefit of unlimited space and anywhere accessibility will encourage more companies to adopt advanced cloud computing services. Even the provider of these services will come up with more functions next year. All of this will be monitored with Balanced Scorecard Software
- The explosion of virtual assistants like Google-now and Cortana
This is already spreading like wildfire. It is also built on Artificial Intelligence. More personal assistants will emerge next year. Even Microsoft has planned to upgrade Cortana to the level that it can study its users and begin to anticipate their needs
