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Biggest technology trends for 2021:
 
I help companies understand the major technology trends and  book tech trends in practice in which i look at the 25 biggest technology trends that will transform th next decade this was published just before the pandemic hit and what surprised me is that many of the tech trends i am talking about here have now been fast-tracked and accelerated by companies. so what i want to do with this  article is to look at the five mega trends that are helpinp businesses of all sizes and all shapes and all industries cope with this new pandemic situation and a post coronavized world 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 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 90 days instead of the last 10 years this is 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 warehouses that can look for trends themselves they can highlight things that are happening so i'm seeing this in retail where big retailers are learning from their systems by themselves saying where the systems will tell them these trends and cookies are going up alcohol sales are going up things are going down here 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.

Robotics vehicle automations 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 are 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 oh how can we potentially use drones to deliver parcels where i live in milton keynes.

we have already got robots that are delivering my grocer shopping to my door ford has developed developed a robotic postman that can actually deliver parcels even upstairs to people's houses there are lots of ways companies are reimagining the entire supply chain so companies like ups are using self-driving trucks  companies like daimler are already running self-driving trucks u companies like royce royce together with google are building self 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 apart if they find a cluster of large people it will walk up to them
 
The cloud computing revolution:
 
we're experiencing at the moment what we've seen again during this pandemic is that our work process has changed people are now from home people are now shopping completele differently and all of this is enabled by this new cloud infrastructure if you just think about zoom video conference calling was something that very few people did before the pandemic nowadays everyone.

 I 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 deliver the demand that was required so my first two tech trends.

I talked about artificial intelligence and robots and automation of vehicles all of this is now also available as a service so very similar to cloud computing i can now go to companies like microsoft or google or honda and say can you give me a robot if you want a security robot or warehousing robot you can simply rent those as a service the company will come to you program them for you and then you simply a bit like an employee you have them as long as you need them and then you give them back if you don't need them anymore artificial intelligence is also sometimes scary for companies we can now rent AI as a service so companies like again.
 
Microsoft amazon google are offering all of these capabilities so if you want to have a recommendation engine on your website that recommends products similarly to what you experience on amazon amazon now makes this available for you as a service using the same powerful algorithm they're using themselves