Trends impacting Heavy Industry
It is important to look broadly for disruption. This list includes 202 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
- 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
- Blockchain
- Digital Citizenship
- Personal Robots and Robot Butlers
- Ethical Manufacturing
- Robot Rights
- Smart Dust
- Grid Management
- Reversing Environmental Rules and Regulations
- Green Tech
- Renewable Energy
- Charging Stations
- Ultra-High-Voltage Direct Current and Macro Grids
- Better Batteries
- The Anthropocene Epoch
- Unpredictable, Rising Sea Levels
- Extreme Weather Events
- Human Migration Patterns Shift
- The Proliferation of Splinternets
- Autonomous, Programmable Robot Swarms
- Robotic Process Automation
- Robot Compilers
- Soft Robotics
- 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
- Platform Ownership
- Detecting Authentic Activity
- Fuel-Free Space Propulsion Systems
- Mercury Rain
- Galactic Gas Stations
- Space Forces
- China’s Space Ambitions
- Ultra-Long Space Missions
- Bounty Programs
- Magnetic Tape Supply Shortages
- Biometric Malware
- State-Sponsored Security Breaches
- Critical Infrastructure Targets
- Offensive Government Hacking
- 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
- 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
- Off-Planet Terraforming
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Near-Real-Time Application Environments
- Hyper-Local Data Centers for Edge Computing
- Quantum Supremacy
- Quantum for the Masses
- Drones
- Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Drone Operation Centers
- Clandestine, Disappearing Drones
- 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
- Scoring
- 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
- The New Mil-Tech Industrial Complex
- National A.I. Strategies
- The Race to Establish A.I. Rules
- Algorithmic Warfare
- Making A.I. Explain Itself
- Using A.I. in Critical Systems
- China’s A.I. Rules
- 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
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
- Probabilistic Programming Languages
- Machine Image Completion
- Global Rush to Fund A.I.
- Algorithm Marketplaces
- Fragmentation
- Corporate Biometric Spoofing
- Bots
- Marketplace Consolidation
- Liability Insurance for A.I.
- Ambient Surveillance
- Creating 3D Models from Flat 2D Images
- Proliferation of Franken-Algorithms
- Companies Manipulating A.I. Systems for Competitive Advantage