Top Technologies of 21st Century
Today we are livening in the age of Technology. Everything happening around us are depending directly or indirectly, fully or partially on modern technology. Technology is no more essential for Computer related students or people but for all of us. We are not only dependent on the existing technology but also completely depending on the upcoming innovation and revolution information technology. People need to make themselves up-to-date to make their future secure. More and more businesses are making themselves devitalize nowadays. Let’s discuss a few technologies which are super important for us to learn today in this technology-oriented age.
1. AI (Artificial Intelligence), IoT and Machine Learning.
Although AI, IoT, and Machine Learning are completely different from each other but for the sake of simplicity I would like to merge these three. You can get more detail about this online. The Important point is that we shouldn’t underestimate the impact of these technologies. These are going to completely change the world where we are living. The robots are doing human's jobs more accurately even without taking rest for a second. We can see a driverless car and delivery drones doing more and more profitable job rather than traditional human work.
Predictive maintenance, sensors, drones, automatic traffic signals modern hospital’s equipment and lots of different things around us are enough to make us think about the revolution of technology.
2. Blockchain Technology
We all are well aware of the traditional banking system. Let’s try to understand for a moment what happens when we do a transaction in any bank. Suppose you have to send Rs.1000 to your friend who is in Lahore. Certainly, you will go to your nearest bank and fill out the slip. The filled slip has to be submitted in the bank along with the mentioned amount on the slip. Bank agents will process this and after two or three days the process will be completed and the bank will charge their fees as well. This is just for the transaction within the country. If you have to send money to another country then it’s 10 times more worst than this one. This will take a huge time as well as lots of bank charges will also be charged. Currency discrepancy, up and down status of the currency, etc. are other headaches.
To solve the above-mentioned problem Blockchain came into existence. This doesn’t care about the currency discrepancy, location, timing and middleware charges. You can do transactions any from anywhere and at any time. The transaction will be completed within a few minutes even a few seconds. No need to go to the bank and filling the slip out. No need to wait and pay extra charges for the transaction to be placed. This is what blockchain does for us. This is the future and if I say that Blockchain is a great risk for Banks it won’t be wrong.
3. Edge and Cloud Computing
As we know more and more companies are making themselves digitalize like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and this becomes the adoption of cloud computing. Lots of companies are migrating to the cloud-based solution.
Data in the cloud are continuously increasing and thus we felt the issue of shortcomings of cloud computing in some situations. Edge Computing came into being to solve this problem by bypassing the latency and getting data to the data center. Edge computing can be used to process time-sensitive data with minimum connectivity or with absolutely no connectivity to the centralized data center. Edge computing is very useful for IoT Devices. It’s expected that the global Edge Computing market will reach 6.72 billion Dollars by 2022. This will open many doors for Software Engineers.
Besides the above-mentioned technologies, there are many other that can change the living style of the people shortly. I would recommend you to consider AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality), Cybersecurity, Automation and Cryptocurrency etc.