Trends impacting Corporate Boards & Directors
It is important to look broadly for disruption. This list includes 178 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.
- Self-Sovereign Identity
- Web 3.0
- Tokenizing Value
- Tokens For Smart Royalties and Freelancers
- Immutable Content
- Content Provenance and Permanent Archiving
- Distributed Computing For a Cause
- Tech Companies Acting Like Banks
- Financial Inclusion
- The Rise of Quant Funds
- Regulating Open Banking
- Social Payments
- Countries Creating Digital Decentralized Currencies
- Antitrust Probes and Lawsuits
- Policy Uncertainty
- Regulating Data Ownership
- Digital Dividends to Fund Universal Basic Income Plans
- Multilateral Science and Technology Acts
- Overhauling Government Tech Infrastructure
- China’s Quest for Global Cybersovereignty
- Corporate Foreign Policy
- Blockchain
- Digital Citizenship
- Sustainability in Supply Chain and Logistics
- The Proliferation of Splinternets
- Content Moderation in the Name of National Security
- Digitally Retouching History
- 5G Triggers a Surge of New Businesses
- Capturing IIoT Metadata
- Robots as a Service (RaaS)
- Collaborative Robots
- Self-Assembling Robots
- Commercial Quadrupedal Robots
- Decentralized Content Platforms
- Platform Switching and Demographic Shifts Threaten Established Social Networks
- Censorship in the Digital Age
- IRL Geography Reshapes the Virtual World
- Digital Frailty
- Detecting Authentic Activity
- Ultra-Long Space Missions
- Automated Credit Risk Modeling
- Crypto-Mining Malware
- Crypto Trading Bots
- Bounty Programs
- Magnetic Tape Supply Shortages
- Biometric Malware
- State-Sponsored Security Breaches
- Critical Infrastructure Targets
- Offensive Government Hacking
- 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
- Security
- Zero-Day Exploits on the Rise
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs Go Commercial
- Gaining Access to Backdoors
- Remote Kill Switches
- Insecure Supply Chains
- Data Manipulation Becomes The Greater Threat
- Consumer Device Targeting
- Cyber Risk Insurance
- A.I.-Powered Automated Hacking Systems
- DDoS Attacks on the Rise
- Third-Party Verified Identities
- Ransomware-as-a-Service
- Decentralized Hacktivists
- Targeted Attacks on Voice Interfaces
- Open Source App Vulnerabilities
- Global Cybersecurity Pacts
- Proliferation of Darknets
- Hijacking Internet Traffic
- Weird Glitches
- The End of Biological Privacy
- Public Entities Selling Private Data
- Connected Device Security Loopholes
- Tech Workers Fighting for Privacy
- Encrypted Messaging Networks
- Vanishing Messages
- Digital Eavesdropping Rights
- Data Ownership
- Digital Self-Incrimination
- Differential Privacy
- Promoting Anonymity
- Verification
- Revenge Porn
- Drone Surveillance
- Influencing Future Privacy Laws
- Defining Online Harassment
- Safeguarding and Verifying Leaked Data
- Trolls
- Data Retention Policies
- Compliance Challenges and Unrealistic Budgets
- Privacy
- Forced Bundling and Planned Obsolescence
- Smart Cameras
- The End of Remote Control
- Smart Appliance Screens
- 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
- A.I. at the Edge
- 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
- Synth-Pop Makes a Comeback
- Simulating Human Experiences
- Synthetic Voice Fraud
- Synthetic Sex Tapes
- Synthetic Property Rights and Legal Protections
- Using Synthetic Media to Get Around Copyright Laws
- Synthetic Media Marketplaces
- Truth Decay in an Era of Synthetic Media
- Speech Synthesis
- Modulating Custom Voices
- Deep Behaviors and Predictive Machine Vision
- Generative Algorithms for Voice, Sound and Video
- Mapped Synthetic Environments
- Vices
- CBD-Infused Products
- Cannabis Supply Chains
- Cannabis Compliance Systems
- Banking for Cannabis Dispensaries
- Scoring
- Persistent Tracking and Scoring
- Scoring Agencies Are On the Rise
- Intentionally Opaque Methodologies
- Recognition
- Faceprints
- Voiceprints
- A.I. and Digital Dividends
- Vast Differences in Verification Systems
- Behavioral Biometrics
- Scoring Vulnerable Populations
- Surveillance Scoring-as-a-Service (SSaaS)
- Bias in Scoring Systems
- Conflicting Norms, Standards and Regulations for Scoring
- Automatic Voice Transcription
- Bioacoustic Recognition
- WiFi Recognition
- Artificial Emotional Intelligence
- Personal Digital Twins
- The Rise of Undocumented A.I. Accidents
- Problematic Data Sets
- A.I. to Catch Cheaters
- Algorithms Designed to Target Vulnerable Populations
- A.I. Still Has a Bias Problem
- A.I. Systems Intentionally Hiding Data
- Corporate Biometric Spoofing
- Bots
- Marketplace Consolidation
- Liability Insurance for A.I.
- Ambient Surveillance
- Artificial Intelligence
- A.I. in the Cloud
- Robotic Process Automation
- Digital Twins and Cognitive Twins in the Enterprise
- Companies Manipulating A.I. Systems for Competitive Advantage