Gartner recently released its top ten technology trends for 2018. The trends will have “significant disruptive potential” for the next five years. Gartner released these findings for companies to recognize the changing future of technology and how they should prepare accordingly:
“Companies must examine their business impacts and adjust business models and operations appropriately or risk losing competitive advantage to those who do.”
The trends are listed as follows:
Trend No. 1: AI Foundation
Today's AI Is Narrow AI
Trend No. 2: Intelligent Apps and Analytics
Augmented Analytics Will Enable Users to Spend More Time Acting on Insights
Trend No. 3: Intelligent Things
Swarms of Intelligent Things Will Work Together
Trend No. 4: Digital Twins
Digital Twins Will Be Linked to Other Digital Entities
Trend No. 5: Cloud to the Edge
Edge Computing Brings Distributed Computing Into the Cloud Style
Trend No. 6: Conversational Platforms
Integration With Third-Party Services Will Further Increase Usefulness
Trend No. 7: Immersive Experience
VR and AR Can Help Increase Productivity
Trend No. 8: Blockchain
Blockchain Offers Significant Potential Long-Term Benefits Despite Challenges
Trend No. 9: Event-Driven Model
Events Will Become More Important in the Intelligent Digital Mesh
Trend No. 10: Continuous Adaptive Risk and Trust
Barriers Must Come Down Between Security and Application Teams
