Form 1

          Form 1 is one such personal 3D printer which can be yours at just $2799. It may sound like a high price but to have the luxury of getting producing your own prototypes, that’s a reaonable price. Imagine a future where every individual professional has the capability to mass produce their own creative physical products without limitation. This is the future where personal productivity and creativity are maximized.

         Everybody can create their own physical product based on their custom design, and no approval needed from any giant manufacturer! Even the James Bond’s Aston Martin which was crashed in the movie was a 3D printed product!

         Just as the term suggests, 3D printing is the technology that could forge your digital design into a solid real-life product. It’s nothing new for the advanced mechanical industry, but a personal 3D printer is definitely a revolutionary idea.

Empowered Edge

             The edge refers to endpoint devices used by people or embedded in the world around us. Edge computing describes a computing topology in which information processing, and content collection and delivery, are placed closer to these endpoints. It tries to keep the traffic and processing local, with the goal being to reduce traffic and latency.

                 In the near term, edge is being driven by IoT and the need keep the processing close to the end rather than on a centralized cloud server. However, rather than create a new architecture, cloud computing and edge computing will evolve as complementary models with cloud services being managed as a centralized service executing, not only on centralized servers, but in distributed servers on-premises and on the edge devices themselves.

            

                Over the next five years, specialized AI chips, along with greater processing power, storage and other advanced capabilities, will be added to a wider array of edge devices. The extreme heterogeneity of this embedded IoT world and the long life cycles of assets such as industrial systems will create significant management challenges. Longer term, as 5G matures, the expanding edge computing environment will have more robust communication back to centralized services. 5G provides lower latency, higher bandwidth, and (very importantly for edge) a dramatic increase in the number of nodes (edge endoints) per square km.

Emerging Technology Buzzword Convergence

We’re about to witness the biggest shift in tech in a generation. The buzzword-loaded, hyped areas of AI, machine learning, blockchain and AR are all impressive in their own right but were previously siloed. Convergence between these technologies will unlock an incredible amount of value for business as they become integrated into standard processes, leading to unprecedented productivity gains.

In no other technical industry, would an 80% rate of functionality be acceptable for any product. But in the security industry, thanks to the buzzword convergence replacing the real word, substantive progress on convergence just didn’t happen. A huge gap exists between the security industry’s state of technology and the state of technology in IT.

The term is useful and has a precise definition in its original area of application, before it comes into use as a buzzword. Then it becomes fashionable among non-specialists as a way of impressing others, and simultaneously loses its precise meaning among the broader audience. People try to figure it out its meaning from the context in which it is used, and it becomes a foggy concept that people equate with other terms they know, or they decide that it’s really a meaningless term being used to hype something up. Either way, they are cut off from the fruits of knowledge, and don’t get the true and original message of the term.

Immersive Experiences

                 Immersive experiences are starting to become available to an ever-increasing audience. From art fans and gamers to doctors, architects and engineers – only to name a few, more and more people are seeing the opportunities in the incredible experiences created by VR , AR and MR. The power that these technologies hold in emulating physical worlds and building completely new ones inspired first of all the creative and digital fields.

      Apparently the other industries are not so eager to adopt them, in spite of the seemingly far-fetched forecasts that indicate towards a $160 billion market attainable by the end of 2021. According to experts, the slow adoption rate in utility cases is due to the persistent lack of convenience and control. “Businesses already experiment with VR, but hesitate to fully commit.

             Be that as it may, plenty of statistics report that immersive technologies will actually be serving utility in a growing number of industries. Considering it’s not a question of if, but a question of when, here is a series of long-due improvements that will most probably contribute to a faster rate of adoption in 2019.

Progressive Web Apps

                The Progressive Web Apps (PWA) platform is evolving too quickly and most APIs and specs are experimental. That means if you maintain a PWA, you should be updated with the latest specs and abilities. Building a high-quality Progressive Web App has incredible benefits, making it easy to delight your users, grow engagement and increase conversions.

                 

                   For example If you change your iPhone or iPad with a new one and recover a backup, iOS will also recover “Web clips”, that is the icons launching PWAs in standalone mode. However, that feature is not available on Android browsers. If you buy a new phone or recover a backup from a hard reset, you will lose all the PWAs installed.

              Progressive Web Apps are user experiences that have the reach of the web, and are: i) Reliable - Load instantly and never show the downasaur, even in uncertain network conditions. ii) Fast - Respond quickly to user interactions with silky smooth animations and no janky scrolling. iii) Engaging - Feel like a natural app on the device, with an immersive user experience.

Prescriptive Analysis

                Prescriptive analytics provides organizations with recommendations around optimal actions to achieve business objectives such as customer service, profits and operational efficiency. Prescriptive analytics solutions use optimization technology to solve complex decisions with millions of decision variables, constraints and trade-offs.

          Organizations across industries are using prescriptive analytics for a range of use cases spanning strategic planning, operational and tactical activities. While the present time is that of predictive analysis, with software giving out prompts on the basis of users’ behaviour and past interaction, in the coming time, the plethora of collected user data will help businesses in a much different way.

               The world of technology in 2020, along with giving businesses the data related to how users would react, will also guide them on how they should act when the user behave a certain way.

NLP

                In a year or two, Chatbots would have reached their market potential, with the majority of the businesses employing them to redefine their customer engagement policies. However, by 2020 chatbots would reach a whole different level with the integration of NLP.

                  Computers, apps, and devices will now be able to understand the true meaning behind what is said. Sarcasm, puns, and double meaning contexts will be clear to the upcoming technologies with the help of NLP.

                  The users will now be able to ask of things in their natural way of talking and not in words that are “right” for machines and software to understand. The complex algorithms that would go behind it, will be based on millions of computations and predictions that would be generated by mixing AI with all conversations happening between humans and their software/ device.