Trends impacting Auditors
It is important to look broadly for disruption. This list includes 153 trends we're following that may shape the future for this industry. You can also click here to search for trends by industry and technology.
- Deep Learning for Food Recognition
- Big Tech Gets into Farming
- Big Tech Gets Into Healthcare
- Patient-Generated Health Data
- Automated Medical Transcription
- Hospitals as Tech Innovators
- Grid Management
- The Anthropocene Epoch
- Unpredictable, Rising Sea Levels
- Extreme Weather Events
- Human Migration Patterns Shift
- Precision Agriculture
- Fuel-Free Space Propulsion Systems
- Mercury Rain
- Galactic Gas Stations
- Space Forces
- China’s Space Ambitions
- Ultra-Long Space Missions
- Space
- Imaging Space
- Lots (and Lots) of Satellite Launches
- Crowded Skies
- Internet from Space
- Space-Based Quantum Internet
- Space Junk
- Bigger, Bolder Telescopes
- Asteroid Mining for Resources
- The New Space Economy
- Made in Space
- Space Tourism
- Galactic Ride Sharing
- Seeking a New Life in the Off-World Colonies
- Connected Fabrics
- Smart Belts and Shoes
- Touch-Sensitive Materials
- Digital Emissions
- Interoperability
- Retrofitting Old Homes with New Tech
- Real Estate and Home Building Powered by Platforms
- Smart Camera News Networks
- Networked Smart Devices
- Interactive Fitness Equipment
- Rings and Bracelets
- Hearables / Earables
- Smart Gloves
- Forced Bundling and Planned Obsolescence
- Smart Cameras
- The End of Remote Control
- Smart Appliance Screens
- Biointerfaces
- Nanomesh Temporary Tattoos
- Dissolving Bioelectronics
- Smart Threads
- Adaptive Wearable Technologies
- Genetic Screening
- Biological DVRs
- Superbugs, Viruses and Phages
- Building a Comprehensive Human Cell Atlas
- Programmable, Ingestible, and Implantable Microbots
- Skinput
- Cloud-Based Wireless Body Area Networks
- Commercial Full-Body Exoskeletons
- Wearable Air Conditioners
- Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs)
- Smartwatches
- Intelligent Packaging
- Insect Agriculture and Bug Proteins
- Cellular Agriculture
- Off-Planet Terraforming
- Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Profiling
- Creating Synthetic Wombs
- Injecting Clouds with Sea Salt Particles
- Reflecting Sunlight
- Sand for Glacier Melt
- Fertilizing the Oceans
- Enzymes to Eat Ocean Trash
- Corporate Environmental Responsibility
- Sustainability as Corporate Identity
- Corporates Adopt Net-Zero Energy
- Sustainable Shipping
- Corporate Meteorologists
- Aeroponics, Vertical Cultivation and Indoor Plant Factories
- Aeroponic Growing
- Vertical Farming Grows Up
- Indoor Plant Factories
- Geoengineering
- Storing Captured Carbon with Algae and Bacteria
- Converting Carbon Dioxide into Building Materials
- Stratospheric Aerosol Scattering with Sulfur Dioxide
- Reducing Corporate Reliance on Plastics
- Big Data for Better Produce
- Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Drone Air Lanes
- Follow Me Autonomously
- Drone Swarms
- Transportation Trends
- Cognitive Active Safety Features
- Electric Vehicles Cause Electricity Demand Spikes
- Transportation-as-a-Service
- Forced Updates To Firmware and Software
- Analog Fallbacks
- Exponential Growth in Autonomous Miles Data
- Autonomous Last Mile Logistics
- Mixed-Use Sidewalks and Drone Lanes
- Supersonic Flights
- Autonomous Ships
- Wireless Charging Everywhere
- Energy Trading Platforms for Blockchain
- Zero Carbon Natural Gas
- Floating Nuclear Energy Plants
- Subsea Power Grids
- Drones
- Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Drone Operation Centers
- Clandestine, Disappearing Drones
- Vaping and E-cigarettes
- Nootropics
- Quantum and Edge
- Drones-as-a-Service
- Personal Home Drone Surveillance
- Flying Beyond Visual Line of Sight
- Real-Time Mapping
- Drones for Dangerous and Hard-To-Reach Areas
- Flying Taxis
- Scaling Cannabis Infusion Techniques
- Specialized Cannabis CRM Platforms
- Vices
- CBD-Infused Products
- Cannabis Supply Chains
- Cannabis Compliance Systems
- Banking for Cannabis Dispensaries
- Two-Factor Biometric-Based Authentication
- Gesture Recognition
- Object Recognition in Computational Photography
- Biometric Camouflage
- Personality Recognition
- Accent Recognition
- Emotional Recognition
- Responsive Recognition Technology
- Affective Computing
- Genetic Recognition
- Universal Genetic Databases
- Persistent Workplace and School Surveillance
- Food Recognition Systems
- Prioritizing Accountability and Trust
- Persistent Tracking and Scoring
- Scoring Agencies Are On the Rise
- Intentionally Opaque Methodologies
- Faceprints
- Voiceprints
- Bone Recognition
- Proximity Recognition
- Artificial Emotional Intelligence