My yearend 2018 technology forecast for the coming year. I identify technologies that will transform business and society in the coming year. I also indicate important technologies that may not be broadly deployed for a number of years yet.

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5. First A Little Context
(How we arrived at our predictions)

6. 1.

11. 21st Century
Fortunes
General Purpose Technologies
2.

19. On an average day in the early
part of the twenty-first century,
human beings generate 2.5
million trillion bytes of data

20. Where all this data comes from

21. Innovation and The Changing Nature of
Competition
3.

22. Existing Direct Competition Adjacent
Competition
Start-ups
IT as a GPT Changes Competition From Incremental Innovators

23. To Disruptive Innovators
Existential Threats
Start-ups Existing Direct Competition Adjacent
Competition

24. Automotive Example
Existential Threats
Start-ups Existing Direct Competition Adjacent
Competition

26. Top 10
Technologies
of 2019

27. 10. Renewable
energy

28. 9. Quantum
Computing

29. 8. Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality

30. 7. Advanced Materials

31. 6. Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies

35. 5. Internet of Things

36. 4. Personalized Medicine

37. 3. Cybersecurity
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38. 2. Software enabled hardware platforms

39. Your Mind in a Machine Body

41. 1. Artificial Intelligence (machine learning)

42. Artificial General Intelligence

44. What Is Machine Learning? ( Narrow AI)
Building systems that enable a computer system to
learn some intelligent behavior by training it on
massive amounts of data.
Said another way; Replacing systems where
algorithm are programed in advance with systems
where algorithms learn from data.

45. 90% of ML Algorithms Do One Thing
Takes an input A and delivers an output B
• Picture Is it you?
• Loan application Should you get it?
• Advertisement Will you click?
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• Image, radar Position of the car

46. On an average day in the early
part of the twenty-first century,
human beings generate 2.5
million trillion bytes of data

47. General Purpose Technologies
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