Trends impacting Education K-12
It is important to look broadly for disruption. This list includes 168 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.
- Tech Companies Acting Like Banks
- Financial Inclusion
- The Rise of Quant Funds
- Regulating Open Banking
- Social Payments
- Countries Creating Digital Decentralized Currencies
- Smart City Initiatives
- Strengthening Municipal Cyber-Security Efforts
- The Proliferation of Splinternets
- Decentralized Content Platforms
- Platform Switching and Demographic Shifts Threaten Established Social Networks
- Censorship in the Digital Age
- Connected Toys
- IRL Geography Reshapes the Virtual World
- Digital Frailty
- Platform Ownership
- Detecting Authentic Activity
- Gamified Health Toys and Games
- Smart Toys and Privacy Concerns
- Bounty Programs
- Magnetic Tape Supply Shortages
- Biometric Malware
- State-Sponsored Security Breaches
- Critical Infrastructure Targets
- Offensive Government Hacking
- 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
- Head Mounted Displays
- Home Automation
- 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
- Privacy
- Forced Bundling and Planned Obsolescence
- Smart Cameras
- The End of Remote Control
- Smart Appliance Screens
- Wearables
- A.I. at the Edge
- Digital Makeup
- Neuroenhancers
- Vaping and E-cigarettes
- Nootropics
- 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
- 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
- Emerging Digital Interfaces
- Mixed Reality
- Virtual Reality
- Augmented Reality
- Synthetic Media and Content
- Holograms
- 360-degree Video
- Prioritizing Accountability and Trust
- Scoring
- Persistent Tracking and Scoring
- Scoring Agencies Are On the Rise
- Intentionally Opaque Methodologies
- Recognition
- Faceprints
- Voiceprints
- Bone Recognition
- Proximity Recognition
- 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
- China’s A.I. Rules
- 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
- Datamining Crowds
- Generating Virtual Environments from Short Videos
- Global Rush to Fund A.I.
- Algorithm Marketplaces
- Fragmentation
- Corporate Biometric Spoofing
- Bots
- Marketplace Consolidation
- Liability Insurance for A.I.
- Ambient Surveillance
- Artificial Intelligence
- A.I. in the Cloud
- Digital Twins and Cognitive Twins in the Enterprise
- Proliferation of Franken-Algorithms
- Companies Manipulating A.I. Systems for Competitive Advantage