I was invited in the Bulgarian National Radio to talk about the technological trends in 2020. So I prepared this list and now I am sharing it with you.
What to expect in the technology world in 2020? Here is my list of the top 20 technologies for 2020 (not in any specific order):
- 5G data networks will start to expand
- Autonomous driving will be closer and closer to level 4
- Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) will improve
- Smart homes will increase popularity and will face security problems
- Lots of jobs will be lost to automation
- Smart cities - more and more cities will integrate the new technologies
- Of course, we should expect improvments in the existing deep learning systems (computer vision, NLP, voice technologies)
- Drones also will increase popularity and the need for law restrictions
- Increasing popularity of wearables with new devices on the market
- Cybersecurity will be a hot topic also in 2020
- Evolution in the health care - presonalized and predictive medicine, better predicitons at the genome level
- Fintech industry will grab huge percentage of all banking industry
- Evolution of aerospace technologies
- AI and robotics will become closer to humans, not only with chat bots and virtual assistants but with consumer-ready physical robots
- Internet of things (IoT)
- New foldable phones in the market
- Quantum computing will become more usable and powerful
- Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies may experience another rise
- It is expected that in 2020 biofuels will be cost-competitive with fossil fuels
- Scientists will continue to work hard in the neurotechnology, expecting to have implantable brain–machine interfaces in the next decade, why not prototypes in 2020?