Global Tech Trends in 2019 - This year it's about information - a little, rather dull word for something that is significantly changing the world we live in.
New advancements, from voice-controlled speakers to "web of things" (IoT) sensors, associated vehicles to wellness wearables, are inconceivably expanding the measure of computerized information we deliver.
What's more, computerized reasoning (AI), machine learning and distributed computing are changing the manner in which we store, break down and apply it.
"In 2019 shrewd sensors will begin to be found all over the place, robotizing information accumulation to fulfill the insatiable craving of AI," says Tim Harper, a previous European Space Center architect and now organizer of G2O Water Technologies.
Computer based intelligence could be an incredible power for good, enhancing medicinal services and fighting environmental change, for instance. In any case, it additionally introduces numerous threats - to vote based system, to money related markets, to the confidence in target truth.
Our reality is computerized now, however has that exacerbated it better or?
Information in the wrong hands, utilized in the incorrect way, could even compromise world harmony, a few reporters caution.
Some controlled computerized recordings that overlay someone else's face onto a body or change what individuals really said - represent a developing risk, contends Katja Bego, information researcher at advancement establishment, Nesta.