Personal computers, e-mail, the internet and mobile devices. All of these products of the information age have become common among people all over the world. Simply put, IT has disrupted how people live, how businesses are done and how processes are accomplished. IT has become paramount.
The importance of technology in daily lives could not be denied. This is because of the fact that in the dynamic world these days, life minus technology would be meaningless. Technology, which refers basically to bringing tools together that ease creation, use and exchange of information, has a key goal of making tasks easier to perform and solving a lot of man’s problems as well. As technology continues to advance, there is a need to stress how beneficial IT programs have become.
Communication all throughout the world is now easy. This is due to the use of the internet, which reduced the world to a global village. People coming from various geographical regions could communicate virtually via e-mails, video calls and many social media platforms that are available today. Businesses have realized the power of technology to reach out to clients, not just locally but on a worldwide scale as well. With the phenomenal growth, Information Technology degrees are growing as well, producing thousands and thousands of IT professionals each year.
Information Technology Advances in 2021
Dueling neural networks, AI in the cloud, artificial embryos, these are just some of the technology advanced that are shaping how people work and live today and in the years to come.
3-D Metal Printing
Although 3-D printing has been around for years, it largely remained in the domain of designers and hobbyists producing one-off prototypes. Printing objects with anything other than plastics, metal in particular has been painfully slow and expensive. Today however, it’s getting easy and cheap enough to be a possibly practical way to manufacture parts. If adopted widely, it could alter the way people mass-produce a lot of products. The ability of making complex and big metal objects on demand could change manufacturing.
Manufacturers would no longer have to maintain big inventories, they could just print an object, like a replacement part of an old car, whenever needed. In the long run, large factories mass-producing limited parts could be replaced by smaller ones, which make a wider variety, adapting to the changing needs of customers. The technology could build more robust, lighter parts and complex shapes that could not be made possible with conventional fabrication methods. Furthermore, it could provide more precise control of metal microstructure.
Artificial Embryos
In a breakthrough that redefines how life could be made, embryologists at the University of Cambridge in the UK have grown realistic-looking mouse embryos with stem cells, no sperm, no egg, just cells plucked from another embryo. It’s easy for researchers to study the mysterious beginnings of a human life with artificial embryos, but are stoking new bioethical debates.
Researches carefully put the cells in a three-dimensional scaffold and watched fascinated as cells started communicating and lining up to distinctive bullet shape of a mouse embryo that is several days old.
Sensing City
Some smart-city schemes run into delays, put down ambitious goals or priced out all except the super-rich. A new project in Toronto, Quayside hopes in changing failures pattern through rethinking an urban neighborhood from the ground up and rebuilding it around current digital technologies. Smart cities could make urban places more livable, more affordable and environmentally friendly.
Sidewalk Labs, Waterfront Toronto
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, which is based in New York, is coordinating with the Canadian government on the high-tech project, slated for the industrial waterfront of Toronto. One of the goals of the project is to base decisions regarding design, technology and policy on information from a comprehensive network of sensors, which gather data on everything, from the quality of air, noise levels to activities of people.
The plan calls for all vehicles to be shared and autonomous. Robots would roam underground, performing menial chores, such as delivering mail. The company states that it would open access to the systems and to the software it’s creating so that other organizations could create services on top of them, much as people create apps for mobiles.
Emerging Trends On The Horizon
As more and more technologies are stacked onto one another and developed into something greater, businesses and consumers alike could expect to see more opportunity with technology in the future. Technology would be faster, could accomplish more and everything would be more simplified to get things done, in an easier way.
Although it’s impossible to predict the future, speculations could be made on the future of tech evolution. The world is constantly witnessing emerging media and new trends in technology. Information technology jobs would continue to grow and thus, there are plenty of rooms for IT professionals, in whatever technology and domain of expertise.
Author Bio:
Ritesh Mehta works as a senior Technical Account Manager in a software development company named TatvaSoft Australia based in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. He specializes in Agile Scrum methodology, Marketing Ops (MRM) application development, SAAS & SOA application development, Offshore & Vendor team management. Also, he is knowledgeable and well-experienced in conducting business analysis, product development, team management and client relationship management.
