Trends Identified
Technologies are converging across multiple industries
"The financial services industry pioneered technology that enables very high speed marketplaces and machine-to-machine communications. Some of these technologies are now being applied in other industries as well as in non-financial markets everywhere. Take general-purpose time series databases and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), software embedded on hardware to allow a much more deterministic speed, as examples. These technologies have been essential to financial services firms for some time. Now cloud providers are deploying both, and automakers are using FPGA within their vehicle systems. Simultaneously, the financial services industry is looking at how other industries are leveraging technology to increase efficiency, reduce risk, improve customer service and gain competitive advantage. To illustrate, the Internet of Things (IoT) is taking machine-to-machine communications to the next level in many areas including agriculture and supply chain management. GPUs used in gaming are enabling machine learning, which is being applied across all industries. Financial firms are moving away from technology islands and leveraging technology architectures and designs in their core infrastructure that are similar to those used in other industries. Examples include distributed global connectivity solutions used in telecommunications, and global networks and platforms that have been within the purview of Google and Facebook. Tech convergence is all about applying technology in creative ways to solve problems, accelerate innovation and meet customer needs. Nasdaq is working constantly to spot new trends and exploring opportunities to adopt new technologies where appropriate. "
2019
NASDAQ DECODES: TECH TRENDS 2019 -The technology trends that are driving the world of markets forward
Nasdaq
Technological start-ups and lean innovation models becoming mainstream
Lean innovation models are inspiring an increasing number of business start-ups to search for market t through successive cycles of product or service development and testing103. The concept of lean start-up favours experimentation over traditional business planning and is driven by customer feedback and intuitive design103,104.
2017
Surfing the digital tsunami
Australia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Technological Innovations for Sustainable Development
Rapidly developing technologies have reshaped the lives of communities, families and individuals around the world through providing new goods and services, including to “bottom of the pyramid”72 consumers, creating new industries and markets, and changing demand for labour and capital (Ramalingham et al. 2016). New technologies have been recognized by the 2030 Agenda as an important means for implementing the SDGs across economic, social and environmental dimensions, and as a critical instrument to address existing and emerging challenges. However, while technologies can bring many benefits to communities in both developed and developing countries, they can also carry significant risks, as discussed later in this chapter.
2017
Global trends
UNDP
Technological Innovation
Diminishing availability of low cost, easily accessible hydrocarbon resources, and the need to reduce carbon emissions, will stimulate intensive research to find alternative forms of energy, although a rapid decline in hydrocarbon use is unlikely.
2010
Global strategic trends - out to 2040
UK, Ministry of Defence
Technological dependencies
Both society, and defence and security, have increasingly depended on certain technologies which have become essential in everyday lives
2017
Strategic foresight analysis
NATO
Technological change
The impact of technological change on society is more difficult to predict than some of the other megatrends. However, the exponential increase in the rate of technological change is a pattern that is likely to continue for the next 20 years. Forecasting specific technological developments over two decades is very uncertain but the speed of innovation and change is more predictable.
2011
ICSU Foresight Analysis
International Council for Science (ICSU)
Technological breakthroughs
The digital revolution has no boundaries or borders. It is changing behaviour and expectations as much as the tools used to deliver new services and experiences. But many of today’s largest and leading organisations and businesses developed in an era of scarce, expensive and rigid technology. Delivering change for them is a complex proposition. Born digital businesses are change ready.
2017
Megatrends
PWC
Technological breakthroughs
Automation, robotics and AI are advancing quickly, dramatically changing the nature and number of jobs available. Technology has the power to improve our lives, raising productivity, living standards and average life span, and free people to focus on personal fulfilment. But it also brings the threat of social unrest and political upheaval if economic advantages are not shared equitably.
2017
Workforce of the future The competing forces shaping 2030
PWC
Technization of Healthcare
Advances in technology have enabled digital medicine and bioinformatics, advanced genomics, digital manufacturing, and nanotechnology, and the widespread development of genetically modified products.
2017
Beyond the Noise- The Megatrends of Tomorrow’s World
Deloitte
Techniques to optimise spatial planning
Practices to optimise land planning in accordance with the landscape structure and the environmental and resource potential of the land imply the embedding of the landscape component in the land planning procedure. They will include GIS algorithms for landscape mapping, the development of generally accepted classifiers for various scale levels, and substantial GIS modelling of key stages of landscape planning: engineering and geological assessments of land, analysis of the capacity (vulnerability, resistance) of landscapes, calculation of ecoservice systems, arrangement of the environmental framework and planning regional tourist and recreational systems.
2016
Russia 2030: science and technology foresight
Russia, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation