boiMAG.com "Tech Trends 2023"

by Jack Santo

Technology today is evolving at a rapid pace, enabling faster change and progress, causing an acceleration of the rate of change. However, it is not only technology trends and emerging technologies that are evolving, making IT professionals realize that their role will not stay the same in the contactless world tomorrow. And an IT professional in 2023-24 will constantly be learning, unlearning, and relearning.

Artificial intelligence will become more prevalent in 2023 with natural language processing and machine learning advancement. Artificial intelligence can better understand us and perform more complex tasks using this technology. It is estimated that 5G will revolutionize the way we live and work in the future.

What does this mean for you? It means staying current with emerging technologies and latest technology trends. And it means keeping your eyes on the future to know which skills you’ll need to know to secure a safe job tomorrow and even learn how to get there. Here are some of the emerging technology trends you should watch for and make an attempt at in 2023, and possibly secure one of the jobs that will be created by these new technology trends, that includes:

SUSTAINABILITY TECH

The entire field of sustainability, underpinned by technologies, will play a monumental role in 2023.

Clean energy projects, like those taking electricity generated by solar power from Africa to Europe, will advance in 2023, adding a new dimension to the global energy war.

In 2023, as companies continue to build more capacity for renewables, short-term and long-term energy storage such as batteries and hydrogen will be key.

A continued investment and favorable policy conditions mean that clean hydrogen (including hydrogen made using renewable energy) could see sustained growth, the development of necessary infrastructure, and better cost competitiveness. In terms of consumer-facing developments in relation to hydrogen, in ’23 the most likely area of attention will be in long-haul trucking.

Carbon capture and storage, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it, will grow in importance.

Direct air capture may continue to gain attention alongside natural removal mechanisms like reforestation,. New demonstration projects are sprouting up worldwide in tandem with supportive policies, building our capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

SEMICONDUCTORS AND SELF-RELIANCE

Predictions from the war in Ukraine will usher in a new era of geopolitics and globalization.

The pursuit of self-reliance, a catalyst of vertical globalization, will accelerate in 2023, affecting every aspect of technology. Automakers in China are buying their own ships to export their cars to the world, and Apple’s plans to move production outside China.

Another trend to watch will be the fight over the semiconductors that power our smartphones, computers, automobiles and home appliances. Smiconductors are set to upend world affairs in 2023, and become an area of competition between the US and China.

AIR TAXI

As electric air taxi vehicle developers progress towards certification and deployment the industry is starting to ask itself who will pilot these aircraft. Many companies are choosing to design piloted aircraft while others like Wisk and EHang are developing autonomous aircraft.

While some people in the industry have already seen this decision of autonomous aircraft as a more radical path, these companies have rationalized their decision by looking at the current levels of autonomy already being utilized by commercial and military aircraft.

From a technology perspective, autonomy is actually quite far along, so, if you look at commercial aviation, over 90 percent of all flight hours are automated from takeoff to landing to autopilot, etc. There’s the comfort, obviously, of having a pilot sitting in front but the actual workload has decreased over the years. And then if you think about from a defense industry perspective, millions of flights have been flown with very large drones, beyond visual line of sight drones, that are obviously on missions and things like that, but that the technology exists to make this happen.

One of the big obstacles to this becoming a reality is the common perception the artificial intelligence (AI) used to do this is a blackbox that cannot be certified.

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