Technology Highlights 2022 & Trends 2023
This is a recap of the key tech highlights of 2023 segregated into General (Science et all) & Core IT (Trends et all)
General
Axiom-one
This year saw a potentially more significant milestone reached, as Axiom-1 became the first privately funded crewed mission to dock with the International Space Station (ISS). Using a craft designed by SpaceX, three astronauts successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center in April and spent 16 days docked with the ISS’s Harmony hub.
JWST (James Webb Space Telescope)
allows us to see farther (and farther back in time) than ever before. Its unmatched infrared capabilities have already given us unprecedented views of star formation. Scientists have seen into the early universe as it was a mere 100 million years after the Big Bang, which happened about 13.8 billion years ago. The telescope is also capturing the wonders of our own solar system, like this vision of Neptune’s faint dusty rings in wavelengths in the near-infrared range. And it could be our best bet for finding extraterrestrial life.
Pig organs partially revived in dead animals
Researchers have restored circulation and cellular activity in the vital organs of pigs, such as the heart and brain, one hour after the animals died. The team hooked up the animals’ circulatory system to OrganEx, a system that pumps a mixture of blood and a “perfusate” of fluid-borne nutrients around the body. The research challenges the idea that cardiac death — which occurs when blood circulation and oxygenation stops — is irreversible, and raises ethical questions about the definition of death.
The technique could increase the number of organs available for transplant and buy doctors more time to save a life if applied to people.
Optical Chip Set a New Internet Speed Record
can send nearly twice the amount of traffic as the entire internet in a single second. Setting the speed record for data transmission at 1.84 petabits, this new technology is described internetsplits a laser into the full spectrum of light
That’s mind-boggling when compared to the 1- to 10-gigabit home connections we currently consider cutting edge, since 1 petabit is a million gigabits. It’s possible because the chip , producing “hundreds” of distinct frequencies, or colors.
Paxlovid — The Covid Pill
The pill developed by Pfizer as a “cure” at the start of the year has proven to be effective at reducing the chance of a person suffering from severe symptoms, even if given after infection. Initial findings suggest that they reduce the risk of hospitalization by 89%. The drug works by disrupting the virus’s ability to replicate itself within the body — essentially by forming a protective coating around the cells.
Evidence Showed That Two Asteroid Strikes — Not Just One — Killed the Dinosaurs
Scientists discovered a crater 250 miles off the coast of West Africa that indicates a previously unknown large asteroid strike. It appears to have hit Earth around the same time as the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid, making it a partner in this extinction crime. The crater is more than five miles in diameter and lies on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Orca
The World’s Biggest Carbon Removal Plant Opens
The Orca, close to Reykjavik, Iceland, is the largest and most powerful facility of its kind, with the capacity to capture 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year. The carbon dioxide is sucked through filters that bind it with water and pump it into the ground, where natural processes eventually transform it into carbon minerals – essentially rocks
A “hibernating” battery
Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced the creation of a low-cost molten salt battery that can store energy for months. ( today’s lithium-ion batteries lose energy while sitting idle, preventing us from storing energy in them for more than a few days or weeks.)
Notable Gadgets of 2022
Apple Iphone 14 (A16 Bionic chip), Nothing Phone 1 ,
Bose quiet comfort 2 earbuds(hidden microphones in the earbuds, they monitor external sound and emit an anti-sound wave to cancel out any noise other than whatever you’re listening to),
Apple Watch Ultra (a clever feature called Backtrack, which can trace your steps back on the path you took to help you get to safety if you get lost) ,
Oura Ring Gen 3 Horizon (t shows you things like your HRV balance, temperature changes in your sleep , blood oxygen levels, and how long you were in each sleep stage),
Fiture Mini — Best smart workout of 2022,
Logitech MX Master 3S — Best wireless mouse of 2022 (You can customize the seven-button input layout with the Logi Options+ app and even set up gesture-based inputs for quickly switching programs or controlling two computers simultaneously.),
Kasa Smart Plug Mini (doesn’t require a separate smart hub)
Core IT & Trends
AI
AI dominates especially in the areas of Robotic Automatic, NLP, Comp Vision & Agents
The AI market will grow to a $190 billion industry by 2025 with global spending on cognitive and AI systems reaching over $57 billion in 2023.
Adaptive AI allows for model behavior change post-deployment by using real-time feedback, to continuously retrain models and learn within runtime and development environments, based on new data and adjusted goals, to adapt quickly to changing real-world circumstances.
Generative AI is the technology to create new content by utilizing existing text, audio files, or images. With generative AI, computers detect the underlying pattern related to the input and produce similar content.
Did you pay an app called Lensa to make you some Magic Avatars? Or spend a few minutes talking to ChatGPT? If so, well, you had a lot of company.
ChatGPT, ChatGPT & ChatGPT
ChatGPT, a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022, is the tech industry’s latest step in generative artificial intelligence. The AI bot has been trending on Twitter and amassed over a million users within five days of its launch.
ChatGPT is a substantial GPT-3(Generative Pretrained Transformer 3)-based language model. A vast amount of data was used to train it.Dall-E was created by the same company. It creates art from virtually any natural language description using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.DALL·E 2 can create original, realistic images and art from a text description. It can combine concepts, attributes, and styles.
AI TRiSM
AI TRiSM stands for ArtificiaI Intelligent (T)rust, (Ri)sk and (S)ecurity (Management). A concept that refers to the need to develop methods that allow ethical principles to be applied to AI models. So, what are AI models? AI modeling refers to the creation, training, and implementation of machine learning algorithms based on available business data, thus emulating a logical decision-making process.
Cloud
By 2030 Cloud could drive more than 3 trillion of EBITA Value in Forbes Global 2000 companies
Edge computing will increase as use of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices increases. By 2023, the global edge computing market is expected to reach $6.72 billion.
The World’s Second Biggest Cryptocurrency Successfully Switches to Proof-Of-Stake
The “merge” of 2022 saw the popular Ethereum blockchain — which acts as a distributed computing platform as well as a cryptocurrency — successfully switch from a proof-of-work (PoW) model (similar to Bitcoin) to proof-of-stake (PoS).
According to the Ethereum Foundation, by doing so, it reduced the overall energy usage of the network by 99.9%. This is significant because the large amount of energy used by blockchain networks has often been seen as a hurdle that has to be cleared before the technology will live up to its potential.
Quantum Computing
The revenues for the global quantum computing market are projected to surpass $2.5 billion by 2029.
Quantum computing is another emerging technology that will catapult business operations and industry value chains to another level. According to McKinsey, Quantum computing has the potential to capture nearly $700 billion in value as early as 2035. Quantum computing could accelerate technologies, fast-track drug research, and crack encryption more effortlessly.
Quantum computing operates on the quantum state of subatomic particles, where each particle represents information as quantum bits (qubits). Qubits, through entanglements, can interact with other qubits. Furthermore, it can hold multiple values simultaneously (Superposition). Quantum computing is way faster than classical computation, only needing a fraction of the memory to perform tasks.
Digital Immune System:
The Digital Immune System combines various practices and technologies to make critical applications more resilient to bugs. Thereby making it easier for them to recover, sustain their services, manage risks, and maintain business continuity. According to Gartner, businesses that invest in digital immunity will increase customer satisfaction by decreasing downtime by 80%.
The fundamental concepts of digital immunity include Observability, AI-augmented testing, Chaos engineering, auto-remediation, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Software supply chain security. These combine to ensure systems don’t crash, provide uninterrupted services, and issues get corrected fast.
The immune system will be equipped to handle sudden critical failures and learn from them to prevent them later. According to Gartner, businesses that invest in digital immunity will increase customer satisfaction by decreasing downtime by 80%.
works from the data emitted by an organization, using AI to analyze and make recommendations, which allow an enterprise to make faster and more accurate future decisions. When applied systematically, it can reduce the latency for response and optimize business operations in real time.
are more than composite applications that aggregate services. A superapp combines the features of an app, a platform and an ecosystem in one application, providing a platform for third parties to develop and publish their own miniapps on.It is therefore a kind of all-in-one platform, where users have all the services they need in one place. This has important benefits since it eliminates the need to download other applications and learn how to use them.
Consider transactions: A superapp can connect to all systems and linked user accounts (sources such as savings accounts, credit cards, etc.), and carry out transactions at all systems (purchases such as mutual funds, stocks, groceries, insurance, etc.), all in one app
“By 2027, more than 50% of the global population will be daily active users of multiple superapps.”
Metaverse allows people to replicate or enhance their physical activities. This could happen by transporting or extending physical activities to a virtual world or by transforming the physical one. It is a combinatorial innovation made up of multiple technology themes and capabilities.
“By 2027, over 40% of large organizations worldwide will be using a combination of Web3, spatial computing and digital twins in metaverse-based projects aimed at increasing revenue.”
ScrumBan
Scrumban is a project management methodology that combines Scrum and Kanban. The framework combines the predictable routines, agility, and structure of Scrum with the flexibility and visualization of Kanban. This helps to make the project workflow more agile, versatile, efficient, and productive, besides helping the team get their strategic tasks right and improve their processes.
Wi-Fi 6 and 7:
802.11ax 9.6 Gbps Wi-Fi 6 supports 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands, runs on a WPA3 security protocol, and supports up to 160 MHz Channel Bandwidth. Meanwhile, 802.11E 30 Gbps Wi-Fi 7 supports 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz frequency bands. It supports up to 320 MHz Channel Bandwidth and relies on a WPA3 security protocol.
Other Mentions — Digital Twins (dynamic virtual copy of a physical asset, process, system or environment), Nanotechnology (use of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale for industrial purposes), Universal Memory ( ultradense and low power) & Photonics.
References
https://www.simplilearn.com/top-technology-trends-and-jobs-article
https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2023
https://www.blueprintsys.com/blog/7-tech-trends-to-watch-in-2023
https://www.ishir.com/blog/55810/top-15-emerging-technology-trends-to-watch-in-2023-and-beyond.htm
https://financesonline.com/it-trends/
