Technology Trends in the upcoming decade 2015-2025:
Crowd-Based Business Models in Developing Nations: Crowd Funding, Crowd Sourcing, Crowd Testing etc has been a hit in the developed nations. In the coming 10 years if Governments & Entrepreneurs of Developing Nations see the potential of the "Crowd" then this model will grow tremendously in these countries and help these respective countries also grow exponentially. The wonderful USP of this "Crowd" is that it can be applied to every single thing if applied sensibly, and with a solid plan. It has the power of empowering young kids who wish to innovate & become entrepreneurs, it helps people get jobs, and businesses plus nations grow.
Commercial Space Explorations & Tourism: It will be a growing trend to closely watch in this upcoming decade. As all the major space exploratory organizations have expressed their interest in inviting Private companies to provide solutions, services, R&D, Innovation, and help leading nations in advancing their race to explore and commercially benefit from the vasts of offerings that these depths of space has to offer. Space tourism will attract more companies to come forward and devise safe and cheap ways to tour the space. Presently NASA & Virgin Galactic are the first pioneers in taking steps towards commercializing space exploration & space tourism respectively.
Wearable Human Interaction Interfaces: We will see a phenomenal rise in the coming 5 years when Mobile Devices will be considered a thing of obsolete tech. New Wearable Human Interaction Compatible Devices will be defining the way we will communicate with other fellow Human Beings. The infancy phase of this technology began when smart watches, sixth sense and activity/health tracking sports or medical applications centered wearable devices began to appear in late years of 2000.
Inclusion of Robotics to Living Rooms: There will be practical applications devised out of technology that long existed but till now had a very little impact on the lives of common people. We will see Robotics coming inside our living rooms and helping us in ways we never thought of.
Omni-Present, Omni-Controlled Smart Living Spaces: We will see a steep rise in light boards, cars, heaters, ovens, projectors, laptops, TVs and what not being controlled by one omni-control, omni-present network that could be monitored by our phone, watch etc. Technology will enable us to take control of all the things that surround us in the way we want and that will set path to the next level of human evolution & growth.
Bio-genetics & bio-engineering growth (Stem Cell & Space Microbiology): We will witness a boom of technology based out of stem cell research and genetics. We will be able to see increased number of medical procedures where utilization of stem cell research and genetics will be curing more diseases globally. We will see a number of research papers derived out of research our scientists will do in the area of microbiology under the effects of space. It will give us more insight to our origin and curing of some of the major diseases.
Food & Industrial Revolution due to 3-D Printing: We will see a revolution that 3-D printing will bring to this world. Developing & Under Developed nations will be able to develop cheap technology to print food out of ingeniously developed 3-D printers, as the technology has already showcased it's potential we can very well witness a move by WHO soon. Industrial manufacturing of precise machinery, in-space manufacturing, merger of nanotechnology and 3-D printing, bio-nano and 3-D etc such technology branches will emerge and help us solve some technologically tedious tasks in an innovative and much cheaper ways.
Education Centered Technological Growth: We will see nations concentrating on evolving new ways to educate their younger generations. It will be a phase where people will realize that the real meaning of education is to use it for common growth and the betterment of humanity. I again foresee; developing countries who has the potential to become the front runners in this direction. Many technological institutions and research centers will be set up which will focus on certain areas of science & technology such that it will not only benefit the nations specifically but also humanity as a whole.
Advanced Batteries or even No Batteries: There will be more focus in this decade to build batteries with low or negligible energy decay coefficients. In the same direction companies will focus on reduction in their size but increasing their longevity as a whole. R&D based on Super Capacitors or Ambient Back-scatter will see give astonishing results.
Big Data Analysis for Personalized Devices: This decade will be a starting point of big data analysis for personalized devices. People will be surrounded by a number of devices and there would be requirement where people at one point would not know which information is important and which is not for them. This is when we will see global technology focus shift from providing these devices to actually get meaning out of them.
Virtual Currency: We have seen how Bitcoin have grown to actual popularity and adoption by various companies across as a payment method. We might see birth and circulation of more robust technology based virtual currencies in future. Some controlled by Governments and some by no one having obvious pros and cons in both the cases.
Configurable Mobile Devices: Just as we are today able to configure our laptops and desktops in the same way we will see that we will be exactly choose in the future that which hardware we need to put in our mobile phone, smart watch or smart TV. We will have the power to configure all the hardware and software in-and-out, to build our very personalized and self focused devices. Generic devices market will see a falling trend other than the ones that offer basic features in under-developed or developing nations.
This concludes my today's blog post. In the Next I will present some ideas that how Microsoft can again become the leading technology company as it once was. Thanks for the read.
