Technology In 2021: Modifications To Inverse Conventional Ways On Technical Grounds Of Expertise
The year 2020 has been one of the breakthrough grounds for technological advancements wherein huge potential of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning has shaken out it's shell. Amid the pandemic, emergence of digitalization has marked in remodelling various sectors.
Innovating lengths to automatize tasks with efficiency, the year 2020 has experienced numerous digital transformations from Finance to Health. Things which were not common even a year before seemed even more acclimatized among people of the world. With that, the year 2021 states even more promising advancements on support of the previous year's Fourth Industrial Revolution with Technology.
From what has been noted earlier in the previous year, Artificial Intelligence has marked to be a major theme in innovating real-time edge solutions for generating greater value in revenues. As per the Mc Kinsey reports on the ever-changing mode of AI in 2020,
A small contingent of respondents coming from a variety of industries attribute 20 percent or more of their organizations' earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) to AI. These companies plan to invest even more in AI in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its acceleration of all things digital.
Such reports enhances the importance of AI in various sectors to revolutionize economic growth and stability. Adoption of Deep Learning has re-modelled the future of automation with the efficient utilization of neural networks to let a machine analyze or predict more perfectly with enhanced features mimicking abilities of a human brain. Further reports suggested that,
..high-tech and telecom companies are leading the charge, with 30 percent of respondents from those sectors saying their companies have embedded deep-learning capabilities.
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES TO MONITOR
5G Services
5th generation of mobile network services is a successor to 4G which would take over the world at much faster rate than in 2021. Peaking at delivering speeds 500% faster than the precursor 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution), 5G would serve as a Multimeter Wave (mmWave) band of spectrum between 30 GHz and 300 GHz. The extended potential of 5G is yet to unleash with unbound speeds along with the latest STARLINK Mission which aims to provide worldwide coverage of ultra speed ad low latency service as a support to enhance usage of Artificial Intelligence.
Though controversial as 5G services and Starlink goes, both are visioned to change internet access around the world as well as revolutionize machine learning and AI to its greatest reach. As noted by Elon Musk on such controversy between 5G and Starlink,
It will serve the hardest to serve customers. 5G is great for high density situations, but it is not great for the countryside. So, any kind of sparse environment, 5G is not well suited. Starlink will serve the 3% to 4% hardest to reach customers for telcos.
Remote Work Facilities
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Remote Work Facilities advances the work culture to a new level with latest integrations of technological upgrades to cope up with. As the Covid Pandemic took over the world, companies are constantly upgrading themselves with latest digitalization strategies in order to maintain stability in such worldwide economic distress. Along with such WFH facilities, advanced technologies as cloud service integration should hold in place to provide secured access to sensitive information from any parts of the world.
In response to such shift, big companies as Twitter, Facebook, Google, IBM and others have already implemented permanent work from home. As per a research by Gartner Inc.,
317 CFOs and Finance leaders on March 30, 2020 revealed that 74% will move at least 5% of their previously on-site workforce to permanently remote positions post-COVID 19.
Robotics and Automation
COVID 19 pandemic has proven the utility of robotics for general purposes as the need for social distancing emerges high urgency in the world. Mostly the advancements to Robotics has financed the manufacturing sector, however in the year 2020, due to acute manpower shortages around the industries, automation and robotics have found its way to a greater utility.
Innovation and Technology has noted forth future prospects of robotics in commercialization through various smart home techs in shaping trends for this new year.
Artificial Intelligence performs to the fullest of Machine Learning capabilities when a physical body is defined to it, thereby researching to a new reality. Out of the various showcases for the digital CES 2021, Samsung has already shared their vision as the President and Head of Samsung Research states,
Our world looks different, and many of you have been faced with a new reality-one where, among other things, your home has taken on a greater significance. Our innovations are designed to provide more personal and more intuitive experiences that express your personality. We're hard at work to bring you next-generation innovation, with AI as the core enabler, for your better tomorrow.
Red Hat is one of the leading providers of IT Automation Solutions in strengthening teams and work places substancing a shift to the best practices related to security and compliances. Realizing the importance of automation of services, Red Hat Summit 2021 has been marked to "uplift perspectives in enterprise IT all around the world". As per the Chief Architect and Strategist of North America, Red Hat, E.G. Nadhan,
2020 has brought in constraints in human-to-human interaction due to unforeseen health concerns, which has rocked the foundations of human interaction prior to COVID-19. Contactless and touchless mechanisms of consumer and employee interaction will therefore gain more adoption in 2021. This trend extends the application of automation technologies to the areas requiring human-to-human contact which can refine the overall customer experience.
Cybersecurity
It goes without saying that cyber threat emerges it's potential attacks as there has been unprecedented advancements to technology and digitializations of companies. As remote working facilities are widely adopted by companies, insider threat to security lingers forth potential exploit attacks in leading to massive data breach. As per the Forcepoint analysis by Myrna Soto, as remote hiring facilities are increasingly maneuvered all around the world in search best suited for the various vacancies,
In 2021, I expect to see organized cells of recruitment infiltrators offering specifically targeted means for bad actors to become trusted employees, with the goal of exfiltrating priceless IP.
Apart from such concerns, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has shifted the priorities to cloud services, highly induced with reponsibilities in enabling remote working facilities. Distributed cloud serves as a next-gen cloud computing technology across the industries leveraging economics of cloud elasticity.
Data being spread all around us, Gartner predicts the significance of such, stating further,
By 2024, most cloud service platforms will provide at least some distributed cloud services that execute at the point of need.
The need for securing endpoint as COVID pandemic raises concerns for remote facilities as well as the emerging advancements to technologies. Portraying the impact on Cybersecurity market, research reports noted,
The COVID-19 impact on the global cybersecurity market size is expected to grow from USD 183.2 billion in 2019 to USD 230.0 billion by 2021, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 12.0% during the forecast period.