2023 Trends - Tech & You
Derek Sweeney
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Today Technology is accelerating acceleration.
According to Futurist Jim Carroll , the accelerated pace of tech innovation has moved us to a new era. Tech innovation now outpaces the speed of technology, resulting in acceleration within every industry, because every industry is becoming a technology industry.
Consider ChatGPT. Anyone can type a phrase into the search box and within few seconds, receive a fully formed answer to any question, dilemma or challenge without lifting a finger.? Obviously the implications of this technology are extraordinary.
?Ernst & Young describes previous generations of mobile networks like this: 3G was operator driven, consumer focused and network heavy. Then came 4G — operator enabled, big tech and social media focused, and consumer driven. 5G seeks to connect virtually everyone and everything together including machines, objects, and devices.
Simply, the applications of 5G allow for advances in all aspects of our daily lives, from the top down.?
The team at Geopolitical Futures, led by Dr. George Friedman , suggests that advancements in technology will likely spur governments to steer their tech industries in specific directions, and likely make them more assertive in regulating tech beyond its military applications to include elements such as cybersecurity and social media.?
On a manufacturing level, the disruption of supply chains over the last few years (COVID, war in Ukraine, and more) has allowed innovation that will continue to be shaped by technology offering real time data via cloud based solutions on everything from production to shipping.?
We have only just started to understand the true impact and power of AI on social media. Technology now has the power to shape our views and affect political change.?… so how do we navigate these shifts?
The way forward is to build inner agility: resilience, risk-taking and the curiosity to learn and courage to unlearn taken-for-granted norms, according to Terence Mauri. ?
Like Terence, CX expert Scott McKain believes our humanness is exactly how organizations can make the most of new technologies.??
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“In the field of CX, AI offers a breathtaking world of possibilities for organizations to provide a high level of service. However, it also delivers an opportunity to de-humanize the aspect of your business MOST focused on the personal touch.”
Colette Carlson , Communications Keynote Speaker, adds that leveraging AI in communications will actually free up individuals to do what they do best: connect on a personal level.
Futurist Nancy Giordano makes an important point to back up these ideas. With AI related post-secondary education up 400% over the last decade, the need for diverse workforces will become more important than ever.?She suggests that “we’ll need less software developers and more folks who can untangle the ethical and societal implications” of advanced and accelerating technologies.
How will your organization weather the future? What can you, as leaders, do to thrive through this period? Your answers may be uncovered in the following exercise by Futurist Lisa Bodell.
Imagine the year is 2032 and your organization is a leading innovator. You have achieved a position of dominance in our industry, but how did we get here? As in, what specific decisions and actions enabled us to reach this level of success?
To focus the creative process, ask participants to answer the following questions and record their answers:
·???????What new things will we be selling or doing?
·???????What changes will enable us to sell and do those things?
·???????What will be different about the structure of our business?
·???????What skills will we need to be successful?
It is clear that change is the only constant, and the acceleration of technology makes this more true than ever before. Re-imagining the future is the only way forward.?
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1 年This raises so many important issues. Advances need to help us be smarter and better.
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1 年Advances in AI and wireless broadband are accelerating the application of Voice Commerce, Voice Search, Business Bots and Voice-Enabled Products. The use of smart e-assistants and chatbots is rapidly becoming a?mobile electronic concierge?available on any smart device, including phones, wearables, tablets, televisions and cars, to name a few. Standalone audio assistants, including Amazon, Google, Apple and others, will continue to evolve rapidly into?Business Bots?for business and governmental applications thanks to?#OpenAI?enabled?#ChatGPT. Retailers will increasingly have a Siri-like?Virtual Sales Assistant, and we will be increasingly using an?e-Personal Health Assistant?that taps into the real-time health data from a smart wearable such as a smart watch to predict potential problems and offer suggestions. From the?Virtual Help Desk?to sales, marketing and accounting, to services such as investment advice, adding AI enables voice instructions and advice to any product or service will exponentially accelerate.
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1 年Very interesting Derek Sweeney - I just feel like the divide between those who eagerly embrace tech and those who don't is certainly growing! I really think there will be a growing demand for "tech navigators" - people who can successfully straddle both worlds and make tech welcoming for those who don't /won't embrace new technology (both corporate and the general population).
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1 年My team is very dependent on technology to have greater impact. From Trello to Slack to Rev and YouTube. Having said that, it’s the people who ensure all those tools deliver on their promise. Until we realize that nothing can replace human connection or human collaboration and ingenuity, we will never be able to fully tap into the true capabilities of technology and what it promises.
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1 年I'm old enough to remember when the internet was a "new" thing back in the early 90s. It was fascinating then and certainly opened a whole new world for us. What I didn't foresee was how the internet will evolve to what it is today--not just a world in itself, but an entire universe! 5G to 6G and onwards; AI enabled tech that will transform work and society; connected gadgets; robots; implants that bridge tech and biology. All this change happening faster and faster, at break-neck speed. How do we adapt? How do we harness the promise of this tech to better ourselves, society and this world?