'Deloitte’s sixth Technology Trends report' (2010 counts as the first). Eight trends (entries 1-8): 'Over the next 18–24 months, each of these trends could potentially disrupt the way businesses engage their customers, how work gets done, and how markets and industries evolve.' Plus an 'Exponentials' chapter on six exponential technologies (entries 9-14), written with Singularity University faculty; it states no time horizon for them. Quotes for trends are from each chapter's opening abstract; for exponentials, from the opening of each section. Read from the Wayback Machine copy of the Deloitte Global PDF. Published month not stated.
As technology transforms existing business models and gives rise to new ones, the role of the CIO is evolving rapidly, with integration at the core of its mission.
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Application programming interfaces (APIs) have been elevated from a development technique to a business model driver and boardroom consideration.
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Ambient computing is the backdrop of sensors, devices, intelligence, and agents that can put the Internet of Things to work.
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A new vision for marketing is being formed as CMOs and CIOs invest in technology for marketing automation, next-generation omnichannel approaches, content development, customer analytics, and commerce initiatives.
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The entire operating environment—server, storage, and network—can now be virtualized and automated.
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To this end, many organizations are modernizing systems to pay down technical debt, replatforming solutions to remove barriers to scale and performance, and extending their legacy infrastructures to fuel innovative new services and offerings.
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Artificial intelligence is now a reality. Its more promising application, however, is not replacing workers but augmenting their capabilities.
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To tackle these challenges, companies will likely need to cultivate a new species—the IT worker of the future—with habits, incentives, and skills that are inherently different from those in play today.
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Although artificial intelligence (AI) may still conjure up futuristic visions of cyborgs and androids, it is becoming embedded in everyday life, and supporting significant strides in everything from medical systems to transportation.
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AI and exponential improvements in technology are bringing what were once futuristic visions into the mainstream of business and society.
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Centuries later, the technology, commonly referred to as 3D printing, holds the potential of eliminating some long-standing trade-offs between cheap and good by potentially erasing the cost of complexity.
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The potential power of quantum computing stems from its ability to free computing from sequential binary operations.
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Today, however, digital technologies are fueling the field of industrial and digital biology, ushering in a renaissance in the ability to manipulate DNA, splice genes, and control genomes.
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Cybercrime has traditionally been a two-dimensional problem: individuals hiding behind computer screens and hacking into the world’s information systems. That’s about to change as cybercrime goes 3D.
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