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