The Top Technology Trends
to Look Out for in 2017
The Year for a New Reality Check
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Reality Will be in the Eye of the Beholder
2016 has released the first set of VR headsets and cutting edge development took place. This year VR and AR will actually take next stage and be implemented and will pop up everywhere.
This year AV will be brought to us over the mobile without the need for any additional hardware devices. AR headsets will be designed to integrate into our mobile devices and deliver VR experience on the go. Microsoft’s mixed reality platform, Amazon’s Go Technology and companies such as RealView will get their breakthrough this year.
Machine Learning
Machine learning falls into the category of Artificial Intelligence and provides computers with the ability to learn about our personal preferences without actually being programmed. This enables computers to change their patterns based on incoming data no matter how dynamic the data is. This is done automatically without having to constantly be reprogrammed. Facebook is using machine learning on its feed to customize content based on personal interests and preferences.
Human Augmented Technology
If 2017 is the year of augmented reality, it’s only naturally to take this phase a leap forward into Human Augmented Technology. This could be the year for human enhancement robotics. Helping people walk again, stand and more is just the tip of the iceberg. Taking medical robotics into new levels and opening new opportunities for both patients as well as doctors is the new robotic thing to do.
With companies focus on tailored healthcare development such as cutting-edge prosthetics and companies such as humanextensions new medical device breakthroughs are on their way.
Precision Medicine
Wouldn’t You Want a Personally Prescribed Treatment? Now You Can.
Healthcare has always been perceived as a services delivered within a system, either governmental systems or private healthcare. Under such great systems we often get the same medical treatments based on the professional diagnosis we receive from our doctors. But what if there is another way? What if we get a medical treatment that is tailored to our body and unique self? This is precision medicine. A new form of healthcare based on algorithms, data and molecular precision tools. Such healthcare will change the dialogue we have with our doctors and the way we are treated. Instead of treating the symptoms, doctors will have to understand the mechanisms of our body treating the cause of the symptom on a wider level of understanding.
Chatbots
Conversations with Robots Will be Real
This year conducting full conversation with an application will be just as normal as talking on your mobile. Chatbots will be your “conversational agents” that will reside on central messaging platforms such as WhatsApp or customer services platforms and will take over most of our interaction with corporates and brands.
This will affect marketing, sales and customer support approach whether a B2B or B2C2B, will have to start considering Chatbots strategy. Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Meekan, and Google Now have paved the way for Chatbots technology to establish itself in almost every service oriented company.
IoT – Smart Home
IoT No Longer on the Cloud or Devices But in Our Home.
We’ve been hearing about the IoT for quite some time now. 2017 will bring the IoT to our everyday life and homes. 2017 is expected to bring the technological unity IoT lacked in 2016 thus enabling it to become available on a personal scale and from our mobile devices.
Companies such as Google, Apple, Amazone and Altair Semiconductors will be involved and will make IoT accessible for all.
Driverless Cars
Is this the end of driving lessons?
This year will be a ground breaking year for driverless cars. Cars with technology that will be able to minimize human error and avoid danger by avoiding any distractions we as drivers are constantly faced with. We are getting closer to mass production of driverless cars that enhance human safety and reliability on the road.
This new invention and technology will dramatically change society by extending car sharing options which will decrease pollution and fuel consumption to name a few. Society will forever change.
As the branding agency of the technological world, we witness these trends evolve and mature and accompany them from their early stages. With all these developments already in the pipeline, we are excited to look at 2017 and beyond!