2021 Technology growth during corona pandemic
Artificial intelligence and big data
The first trend that has been accelerated for 2021 is artificial intelligence and big data. we now live in a world we need to make more real-time decisions. companies realize that even if they had lots of data and the data they had pre-pandemic is no longer relevant. Things are changing so fast so companies are now looking at streaming analytics analyzing real-time data predicting only based on the last 120 days instead of the last 10 years.
This has changed our world and it is bringing in capabilities from artificial intelligence as well, so we can now automate lots of our data analysis. Companies are offering automated data and you can react to this in real-time. AI also helps companies to now address the economic reality of recessions where they want to streamline business processes. Artificial intelligence is the most powerful technology humankind has ever had access to and what AI can nowadays do is, it can read for us it can speak it can write it.
Robotics vehicle automation and Drones
what many companies now realizing is that there has been a vast economic cost to the pandemic and the world economies are shrinking so, we’re now facing a recession and organizations need to really think about how they can automate and streamline and improve their business operations and robots and automated vehicles and drones can help with all of this also what we’ve learned during the pandemic is that companies wanted to take people out of unnecessary necessary steps in their business processes or along their supply chains so, companies like
Amazon is doing this very effectively where they’re trying to automate as much of their warehouses as possible but they’re also taking this across and along their supply chain where they’re saying how can we potentially use drones to deliver parcels.
Ford has developed a robotic postman that can actually deliver parcels even upstairs to people’s houses. That’s the future envisioned by Ford in a new research project that explores how robots and self-driving cars could work together to deliver groceries, fast food, and more.
UPS, There are lots of ways companies are reimagining the entire supply chain so companies like UPS are using self-driving trucks. The self-driving tractor-trailer of the future is one step closer, with UPS in tow.UPS announced an investment in TuSimple, an autonomous truck startup in an effort to cut costs and time in the ever-increasing race for more-efficient ground deliveries.
Rolls Royce together with google is building self floating ships that can autonomously steer the oceans, so all our business processes are currently being automated and also they’re helping us with this pandemic so in Singapore the Boston dynamics robotic dock called spot is now used to look at how people adhere to social distancing in their parks and the dog will use machine vision to detect how far people are passed.
The as-a-service
The cloud computing revolution that we’re experiencing at the moment what we’ve seen again during this pandemic is that our work process has changed people are now working from home, people are now shopping completely differently and all of this is enabled by this new cloud infrastructure. if you just think about zoom video conference call was something that very few people did before the pandemic, nowadays everyone is completely used to this and zoom saw a huge spike in their demand but because they had the cloud infrastructure in the background they could very easily scale their operations up to then.
5g
This is enabling all the previous trends I was talking about, so we need faster networks to be able to work from home, we need fast networks to access cloud computing, we need fast networks and connectivity to have robots and cars driving around in the open world and 5G is a key enabler to all of this because 5g will basically mean that we’ll have powerful fast connectivity faster than the connectivity we have in our offices. This is enabling everyone to access all the services.
Medicine And Healthcare
Healthcare is an industry that is currently being transformed using the latest technology. for example, Wearable fitness technology can do much more than tell you how many steps you walk each day. With more than 80% of people willing to wear wearable tech, there are tremendous opportunities to use these devices for healthcare. Today’s smartwatches can not only track your steps but can monitor your heart rhythms. Other forms of wearable devices are ECG monitors that can detect atrial fibrillation and send reports to your doctor, blood pressure monitors, self-adhesive biosensor patches that track your temperature, heart rate, and more.
