Technology has progressed in ways no one could have expected in the last year. Today’s innovations will have a major impact in the years ahead, and smart businesses are now making plans to capitalize on the latest trends. From low-code apps to blockchain and voice technology, here’s what Forbes Technology Council members had to say about the most disruptive tech breakthroughs of 2018.
Healthcare IT
The healthcare IT industry heard the calling this year, leading to many companies joining the conversations and realizing that technology here has to change. Cross-sector collaboration and inviting best practices from other industries is what healthcare executives and business owners should follow. Technological innovation will see a drastic improvement through technologists and healthcare practitioners.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Data is what machine learning thrives on, and enterprises have no shortage of sources. There’s data about the content customers have read, documents they’ve downloaded, results they’ve achieved, what they have browsed, bought and used. You start to get predictions about what people are most likely to need next at a scale by allowing this data to be analyzed using machine learning models, something not possible without the power of AI.
5G Technology
5G technology finally started to roll out last year and promises to be revolutionary in several areas. In the area of smart homes, virtual reality, telemedicine, connected cars etc., lightning-fast speeds and negligible latency will make new services and applications.
Augmented Reality
The applications for AR continue to increase as our devices continue to learn more about how to recognize the world. We’re seeing accelerated motion in analyzing motion, face tracking and shared environment detection. It makes the experience so much more valuable and fun, now that multiple users (even across platforms) can interact and look at the same augmented reality from their own perspective.