You’ve probably already noticed that the world is busy bowing to the new technological trends that have arisen out of the global pandemic. It surely is an awesome thing to see the way in which technology has been evolving, making a lot of employees wonder whether they’ll still have jobs tomorrow or not, especially the IT professionals.

This means that you better start staying current with all of the technological changes happening this year or you’ll certainly fall behind and the skills that you have might just be learnt by some machine and you’ll be out of a job before you can say “AI”.

So, here are the top 9 tech trends:

1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

AI has already been quite popular within the past decade or so, but continues to come out on top as a new tech trend because of its notable life changing ways. AI will also be used to analyse interactions in order to determine insights to help predict demand for services.

The subset of AI, ML, is also being used in all types of industries, creating a massive demand for professionals that are skilled. Forrester predicts that machine learning, AI and automation will create at least 9% of U.S. jobs by 2025.

2. Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Similar to machine learning and artificial intelligence, robotic process automation is another job automating technology. RPA uses software to automate business processes like processing transactions, interpreting applications, replying to emails and even dealing with data. RPA’s whole job is to basically automate the repetitive tasks that humans used to do.

3. Edge Computing

Edge is the new emerging technology trend. Cloud computing adoption has become rife, left right and centre as more businesses come to a cloud solution. But it’s no longer the newest trend anymore. Edge is now by far the newest trend.

There’s a latency caused by cloud computing, and edge can bypass all of this. In order to process time sensitive data in remote locations with no connection to a centralised location, you can use edge computing as a small data centre.

4. Quantum Computing 

Another great technology trend is quantum computing. This is a form of computing that deals with quantum phenomena like quantum entanglement and superposition. This one-of-a-kind technological trend can also help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and help with the vaccine.

5. Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)

VR is used to take you out of your current environment and place you within a completely new one with the use of technology, while AR is used to enhance that environment.

We can expect these technologies to be further integrated into our lives this year because of the usefulness when it comes to entertainment, training, learning, marketing and rehabilitation.

6. Blockchain

When we think about blockchain technology, we normally think about cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. But blockchain offers security in various other ways. Blockchains are data that you can merely add to and not take away from or change. One can add blocks without being able to change the previous blocks and this is what makes blockchain so secure.

But to get into blockchaining you need to have some comprehension of programming, things like flat and relational databases, data structures, web development, OOPS and networking.

7. Internet of Things

The next level technology trend is IoT. WIFI connectivity is being distributed to many “things” at the moment, being able to connect these many “things” to the internet. Hence, IoT.

The Internet of Things have been locking our doors remotely, heating our ovens remotely while tracking our fitness on our wearable devices. Being the future it has enabled us to connect our cars and home appliances to the internet.

8. 5G

What follows IoT is 5G. While we’ve been lucky to browse the internet with 4G and 3G, we can now use 5G to revolutionise the way we browse, stream, use data and increase bandwidth. Almost all telecom companies are working on creating 5G applications, expected to launch worldwide in 2021.

9. Cyber Security

Given the fact that cyber security has been it doesn’t seem like a new trend, but it is in fact evolving because of the consistency of new threats. The hackers who are trying everything they can to access new data all the time illegally aren’t going to give up. So when hackers’ skills increase, so does the technology of cyber security.

In Conclusion

Even though new technologies are emerging everywhere, there is still time to follow them, get used to them and study them in order to take on the opportunities of new careers in the foreseeable future. These technologies are also taking on skilled professionals, meaning that there’s no better time to focus on a given technology and get trained with it in order to secure your new position in the future.

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