Top 8 technology trends in 2020

We have seen an upsurge of technological tools used in the past decade. Smart Phones have taken over the world and with that, the use of the internet has become an integral part of people’s lives. What we have come across in the past decade was shaped by the efforts of tech companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. They were the key players in shaping the face of the IT industry. It will be interesting to see how technology trends in 2020 will shape the future of the upcoming decade. We already have got hints regarding some of the coolest technology that will be trending in 2020 in the last few years.

Top 8 Technology Trends in 2020 

Here is the list of top 8 latest technology trends in 2020 that will be buzzing all around the world in the years to come.

• Artificial Intelligence

• Robots

• Computer Vision and Face Recognition

• Self Driving Cars

• Blockchain

• Quantum Computing

• Robotic Process Automation

• Edge Computing

1. Artificial Intelligence

Lots of research gave been going on in the field of Artificial Intelligence and efforts have been made to attribute machines with human intelligence. Computer Scientists are in the process of building smart machines that are capable of performing tasks that generally requires human intervention.

Some of the tools that are AI-enabled, and you have been using it for quite a time are –

• Personal Assistants – Microsoft’s Cortana, Apple’s Siri, Google Search, Amazon’s Alexa
• IBM’s Watson
• YouTube’s Recommendation is surely not a coincidence, that is a small example of Artificial Intelligence in action

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The examples we mentioned above fall under the category of Narrow AI as each of them performs a single task very well. The next big technology trend in 2020 and the years to come would be something more powerful such as AI machines that can do whatever the humans can, but that is still far from reach.

2. Robots

We have come a long way with robots from toys to humanoid robots like Sophia. Countries like Japan and China have robots that can serve coffee and food to customers.