Trends impacting Professional Services
It is important to look broadly for disruption. This list includes 191 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
- Automated Medical Transcription
- Hospitals as Tech Innovators
- Blockchain
- Digital Citizenship
- The Proliferation of Splinternets
- Optimizing for New Types of Search
- Investigating the Algorithms
- Journalism as a Service
- One-To-Few Publishing
- The First Amendment in a Digital Age
- 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
- Continued Media Consolidation
- The Subscription Economy Matures
- Ultra-Long Space Missions
- Automated Credit Risk Modeling
- Crypto-Mining Malware
- 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
- Hijacking Internet Traffic
- Weird Glitches
- Defining Online Harassment
- Safeguarding and Verifying Leaked Data
- Trolls
- Data Retention Policies
- Compliance Challenges and Unrealistic Budgets
- Rings and Bracelets
- Hearables / Earables
- Smart Gloves
- Forced Bundling and Planned Obsolescence
- Smart Cameras
- The End of Remote Control
- Smart Appliance Screens
- Biointerfaces
- Wearables
- Cloud-Based Wireless Body Area Networks
- Commercial Full-Body Exoskeletons
- Wearable Air Conditioners
- Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs)
- Smartwatches
- Corporate Meteorologists
- A.I. at the Edge
- Neuroenhancers
- Hyper-Local Data Centers for Edge Computing
- Quantum Supremacy
- Quantum for the Masses
- Drones
- Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Drone Operation Centers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ambient Computing Expands
- Ubiquitous Digital Assistants
- A.I. for Interviews
- 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
- 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
- Multitask Learning
- New Generative Modeling Techniques
- Hybrid Human-Computer Vision Analysis
- Predictive Machine Vision
- Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
- Customized Machine Learning
- Graph Neural Networks
- Intelligent Optical Character Recognition
- A.I. for the Creative Process
- Generative Algorithms for Content Production
- Automated Versioning
- Algorithmic Fact Checking
- Datamining Crowds
- Generating Virtual Environments from Short Videos
- Automatic Voice Cloning and Dubbing
- Spotting Machine-Written Text
- Deep Linking
- Global Rush to Fund A.I.
- Algorithm Marketplaces
- Fragmentation
- Neuro-Symbolic A.I. Algorithms and Systems
- Real-Time Machine Learning
- Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
- Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC)
- Natural Language Generation (NLG)
- Real-Time Context in Machine Learning
- General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
- Deep Learning Scales
- Faster and More Powerful Open Source Frameworks
- Reinforcement Learning and Hierarchical RL
- Continuous Learning
- 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
- Proliferation of Franken-Algorithms
- Companies Manipulating A.I. Systems for Competitive Advantage