In 2022, the Covid-19 pandemic will continue to influence our lives in many ways. This means that the pace of digitalization and virtualization in businesses and society will continue to accelerate. With the arrival of the New Year, the need for sustainability, increased data volumes, and increased computer and network speeds will begin to regain its position as a major driver of digital transformation.
For many people and organizations, the most important lesson of the last two years has been that implementing truly transformative change is not as difficult as it might have been at first. As a society, we certainly move from trying to survive in a changing world to prospering in it, this newly discovered openness to flexibility, agility, and innovative thinking. Continue to utilize sex.
With that in mind, here are my predictions for the specific trends that are likely to have the greatest impact in 2022. There's no speculation about quantum computers, neural interfaces, or nanotechnology, but it's definitely on the map, but the impact is a word that will be felt later. Instead, the biggest trends in 2022 could focus on the convergence of technology trends, with the emergence of tools that can combine them in surprisingly new ways.
Artificial intelligence everywhere
"Smart" means that you are actually connected. Smartphones, smart TVs, and many other smart devices, which were actually the same old toys, were connected to the Internet. Today, "smart" has come to mean artificial intelligence (AI), usually machine learning algorithms, and can be useful in more innovative ways than ever before. Vehicular automation uses facial recognition algorithms to determine if you are paying attention to the road and warn you when you are tired. Smartphones use artificial intelligence algorithms to do everything from maintaining call quality to taking better pictures. Of course, there are many applications that use artificial intelligence to help with almost everything. Even smart toilets are in progress, and using computer vision to analyze stool samples will help diagnose gastrointestinal problems!
AI pervades tools for everyday work, from ubiquitous voice assistants to language translations, and tools that can extract structured data from images, whiteboard graffiti, and handwritten notes. It also promoted most of the automation of robotic processes, reducing the workload of management, logistics, accounting, and human resources. Whatever your industry or job, you may find solutions that are managed by AI and make your life easier.
This broad trend includes new ultra-fast networks such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G. All of these are integrated to provide features that weren't there a few years ago. This underscores the fact that convergence on a longer time scale is the most shocking trend than what we are particularly looking at here. Increasing data volumes, increasing network and processing speeds, and data "democratization" (more on this below) come together to impact society in ways that far exceed the sum of those parts. I am.
Everything as a service and the cordless revolution
Another stronger impetus is the continued democratization of data and technology. In recent years, an industry as a whole has emerged aimed at putting the skills and tools needed for technology-driven innovation into the hands of as many sections of society as possible, regardless of knowledge or experience. Cloud solutions for storage, networking, and computers are costly and greatly reduce the risk of setting up expensive infrastructure to test new ideas. Hybrid solutions have evolved to the point where the "two world's best" solutions are viable when public cloud services aren't entirely appropriate, for example, for very private or valuable data.
Innovation was limited in some areas by a crisis of skills that sounded like a problem, but was the driving force behind the explosive growth of do-it-yourself and self-service solutions. If every company can only hire one for the work they have to do, then there's no need to hire an army of computer geniuses to build their own "digital brain." From marketing to human resources development, project management, and production process planning and design, there are ready-to-use AI solutions. In 2022, we will continue to see companies implementing AI and IoT infrastructure without owning a single server or their own cognitive code.
No-code interfaces are becoming more popular because lack of programming knowledge and a detailed understanding of statistics and data structures do not impede the realization of world-changing ideas. OpenAI, a research group founded by Elon Musk and funded by Microsoft and others, recently announced Codex, a programming model that can generate code from spoken language and natural human languages. As we see in 2022, as this technology ages and matches the potential offered by cloud infrastructure, lack of resources and technical skills will reduce the delay in innovation and imagination.
Digitization, data declaration, virtualization
From 2020 to 2021, many of us experienced office and workplace virtualization due to the rapid distance adjustments. It was just a crisis-led surge of much longer-term trends. In 2022, we will become more and more familiar with the concept of the "metaverse," the lasting digital world that coexists with the physical world in which we live. In these metaphors, such as those recently proposed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, we perform many of the functions we are accustomed to in the real world, such as work, play, and hanging out. As the pace of digitalization increases, these metaphors more accurately model and simulate the real world, enabling a more immersive, compelling, and ultimately valuable experience in the digital realm. Many of us have experienced some immersive virtual reality in headphones, but the variety of new devices coming to the market that will soon improve the experience by providing concrete feedback and even scents. increase. Ericsson, who provided virtual reality headphones to employees working at home during a pandemic and developed the so-called "sensory internet," predicted that a virtual experience indistinguishable from reality would be available by 2030. It may look a bit farther than what we are interested in in this article. But with the new Matrix movie, 2022 will undoubtedly be one step closer to ourselves entering The Matrix.
Transparency, governance, accountability
For technology to work, people need to trust it. In many respects where technology is currently in use, we already see a strong setback (of course). It is considered intrusive, dangerous, or irresponsible. In particular, AI is sometimes called a "black box." This means that you can't look into the AI to understand how it works. This is often due to its complexity, not malicious planning that limits our understanding, but the effect is the same. This means that we are very worried about incidents where AI is clearly harmful (for example, if Facebook recently labeled a black image as "primate"). This is especially true in societies that are beginning to look for AI for life-changing decisions such as rent and layoffs.
The transparent and explainable AI idea has been popular in the last few years, as it turns out that there is a section of society that doesn't trust it, for obvious good reasons! The government also clearly understands the need for a regulatory framework, as evidenced by the existence of the EU's proposed artificial intelligence law. The proposed law prohibits authorities from using artificial intelligence to create social scoring systems and the use of facial recognition tools in public places. There is also a list of potentially dangerous consequences such as "exploitation of vulnerabilities" and "physical or psychological harm". These need to be demonstrated by AI solution providers before they can be sold by the system. However, some argue that the current state is not sufficiently advanced as it does not include a provision that people need to be notified when they are subject to a decision-making process driven by artificial intelligence. .. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said it was "balanced" to ensure that innovation wasn't hampered, recognizing the need for artificial intelligence regulation. This balancing act could become an increasingly important debate during 2022 as more and more people are aware of the potential positive and negative impacts of AI and other technology trends on society.
Solutions for sustainable energy
During the pandemic, renewable energy was the only form of energy used. In the United States, renewable energy use increased by 40% in the first 10 weeks of downtime. Globally, as industry closed and people stayed at home, all non-renewable energy use was reduced and emissions were reduced by 8% overall. This is expected to lead to more and more investment in energy generation from renewable resources over the next few years.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that 2020 will generate and use 40% more renewable energy than the previous year, and this growth will continue until 2022. In general, the cost of producing renewable energy from a variety of sources, including wind and sunlight, sunlight and tides, has been reduced by 7-16%. This is of great help to countries and companies seeking to meet emission targets such as carbon neutral and carbon negative. In addition, exciting new energy sources such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen, and even nuclear fusion will be viable, even shortly after 2022, if some of those full effects are felt. It is becoming. But progress in all these areas can be news. Helion Energy, a pioneer in the field of fusion energy that repeats the processes used to generate energy in the sun, hopes that the latest fusion generator prototype will be online by the end of 2022. increase. It is also expected that "green hydrogen" will be put into practical use in the energy field. Uses renewable energy, unlike the established process of using large amounts of energy from "dirty" fossil fuels to electrolyze and generate energy from hydrogen, which separates hydrogen and oxygen without releasing carbon. Therefore, the entire environment is limited. Impact.
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