Gartner says the 35 must-watch technologies represented on its latest Hype Cycle for emerging technologies has revealed five distinct emerging technology trends that will blur the lines between humans and machines.
AI technologies will be virtually everywhere over the next ten years. While these technologies enable early adopters to adapt to new situations and solve problems that have not been encountered previously, these technologies will become available to the masses – democratized. Movements and trends like cloud computing, the “maker” community and open source will eventually propel AI into everyone’s hands.
Emerging technologies in do-it-yourself biohacking are moving rapidly through the Hype Cycle. Mixed reality is making its way to the Trough of Disillusionment, and augmented reality almost reached the bottom. Those pioneers will be followed by biochips, which have just reached the peak and will have moved on to the plateau in five to ten years.
Gartner clients can read more in the report “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2018”, which specifically focuses on the set of technologies that is showing promise in delivering a high degree of competitive advantage over the next five to ten years.