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Dec 28, 2022 (Around the corner)
ā”ļø@ces | CES 2023: What to Expect (Las Vegas, January 5-8, 2023)
CES 2023 is right around the corner. With a show-floor size 70% larger than 2022, 3000 exhibitors - of which 1000 are new to CES - this year's show is set to impress, inspire and influence the global tech industry. Hear from top CES leaders on what you should see and why, and how you should plan your visit. Hear all this and more as they discuss how CES 2023 will be unlike any show before it.
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Weāre also testing automated order-taking in the Drive- Thru. This exciting technology is a product of the McDonaldās Tech Labs team. Weāre able to greet customers in a consistent manner when they arrive, accurately take their order and thank them for visiting McDonaldās. Our customers like it because it makes their ordering process easier, and more streamlined, and crew are freed up to focus on other customer-facing activities. Letās take a look.
Dec 27, 2022 (layoffs, remote work, cloud, crypto jurisdictions)
Layoffs will continue throughout the year, and not just in tech, although many large tech companies are generally overstaffed and still trying to react to the economy downturn.
The push against remote work is going to intensify. Everyone sane agrees remote here to stay, but human nature (and bad managers) will not be denied. However, four-day weeks are quite likely to become more ānormalā as businesses finally understand that peopleās productivity (and, to a degree, long term allegiance) comes from their overall satisfaction with work, and that, in turn, depends on how it fits with their whole life.
Cloud, telecoms and most sizable, pan-regional technology businesses are going to be facing more and more privacy and sovereignty regulation from the EU. The UK is going to try to straddle the divide between EU and US regulations and (as usual) end up nowhere (although, to be fair, the Telecommunications Security Act was nicely done), but things like the EU Digital Markets Act are going to raise a lot of procedural issues. Considering that GDPR compliance is, in practice, still a challenge (and not just on the vendorsā side), weāre in for another year of businesses hemming and hawing and stalling.
Crypto is going to implode even further, and likely be outlawed in some jurisdictions.
ā”ļø@readtheedge_sg: 'There's less noise': How investors are dealing with the fintech slowdown
/ā¦ Itās now a buyerās market, said Andre, who has recently been spending time with founders in Estonia. Her philosophy is that challenging times mean companies have to focus on whatās important. āHistorically, we've seen great companies being built in these times,ā she said. Julia Andre, partner at Index Ventures
I appreciate these clear and specific predictions! I look forward to seeing how they turn out. I took the liberty of making a prediction market on each one, as I'm interested to see how the rest of the AI community fares.
ā”ļøIEEE Spectrum: An IBM quantum computer will soon pass the 1,000-qubit mark
[Transcription] IBMās Condor, the worldās first universal quantum computer with more than 1,000 qubits, is set to debut in 2023.
The year is also expected to see IBM launch Heron, the first of a new flock of modular quantum processors that the company says may help it produce quantum computers with more than 4,000 qubits by 2025.
ā In 2023, IBM plans to begin prototyping quantum software applications.
ā”ļø@masseyrl: Trust emerged as a theme in Deloitteās #TechTrends 2023. Forward-looking leaders are embracing trust-key to unlocking techās full potential. Of course #blockchain is at its core. Love the net of trust visual in this piece! @davtr1@mikebechtel
ā”ļø@scott_buchholz: If there are 200+ companies worldwide working in Quantum Computing, what do they know that we don't? And where might they be used? Reworked has a quick overview from a few folks sharing thoughts on today and tomorrow.
āThe biggest misconception, however, is that quantum computers will one day replace classical computersā. Dave Barry, Journalist
[Transcription] For a generation, the connection to the digital world has been mediated through an ever-shrinking series of rectangular screens.
Now, as technologists recognize that screens canāt keep shrinking forever, the paradigm is shifting again, toward interfaces that take users through the glass and into immersive virtual experiences, including the digital world known as the metaverse.
Over the next couple years, tangible, conversational, and virtual interfaces will likely continue to graduate from tech to toy to enterprise tool. While some companies build lucrative business models around the unique capabilities afforded by an āunlimited reality,ā others provide immersive environments for employees to streamline operations or collaborate and learn.
As technology advances further over the next decade, organizations should be ready for reality to move online, through expanded ways of interacting with mixed reality.
[Transcription] With AI tools increasingly standardized and commoditized, few businesses may realize true competitive gains from crafting a better algorithm.
Instead, what will likely differentiate the truly AI-fueled enterprise from its competition will be how robustly it uses AI throughout its processes. The key element here, which has developed much slower than machine learning technology, is trust.
As machines encroach on human-like tasks that go beyond basic number crunching and enter the realm of discernment and decision-making via AI, the business world is having to develop a new understanding of what it means to trust machines.
Leading organizations are developing AI systems and inserting them into their processes with trust at the core, ensuring that all users understand how these tools work and feel they can rely on them.
[Transcription] As the number of cloud platforms maintained by the typical enterprise proliferated so, too, did operational complexity.
With multiple platforms comes multiple security protocols, applications, databases, and governance rules. To simplify multicloud management, some enterprises are beginning to turn to a layer of abstraction and automation that sits above the burgeoning multicloud.
Known alternately as metacloud or supercloud, this family of tools and techniques can help cut through the complexity of multicloud environments by providing access to common services such as storage and compute, AI, data, security, operations, governance, and application development and deployment.
Metacloud offers a single pane of control for organizations feeling overwhelmed by multicloud complexity, allowing them to synchronize activities across their various cloud platforms.
[Transcription] Over the past year, many organizations have been engaged in a heated competition for a limited supply of technology talent.
Yet, with technical skills becoming outdated every couple of years, hiring for current needs is not a winning long-term strategy. Rather than competing in scarcity, savvy leaders consider an abundance frame, wherein technology talent can be curated, created, and cultivated. Companies should be prepared to eschew IT orthodoxies and prize flexibility as the best ability. By building a skills-based organization, tapping into creative sources for finding talent, and providing a compelling talent experience, companies can meet their talent goals.
In the longer term, organizations should plan to brush up on their humanities, as AI technology advances enough to carry out many of the lower-order tasks that IT teams are burdened with today.
[Transcription] Blockchain-powered ecosystems are becoming key not only to developing and monetizing digital assets but also to creating digital trust.
As organizations begin to understand blockchainās utility, theyāre realizing that building stakeholder trust could be one of its primary benefits. From everyday enterprise applications to blockchain-native business models, blockchain-enabled architectures and ecosystems disintermediate trust, placing it not in a single person or organization but distributing it across the community of users.
Organizations may be able to cement their credibility by helping reinvent a more decentralized internet, Web3, in which a single, immutable version of the truth is based on public blockchains. In this world, digital natives are increasingly likely to demand higher-quality proof and higher-order truth.
Digital ledger technologies and decentralized business models that achieve consensus through code, cryptography, and technology protocols are demonstrating that none of us is as trustworthy as all of us.
[Transcription] Most businesses today feel that their legacy systems, such as mainframes, are performing well on the types of workloads they were originally designed to do.
The problem is that the business and technology environment has moved on, leaving business leaders expecting more functionality from their IT systems. Rather than rip and replace legacy core systems, enterprises are increasingly looking to bring them into the modern era by connecting and extending them to emerging technologies.
Through tried-and-true approaches to legacy system modernization, businesses are leveraging things like mainframesāand their precious dataāto drive digital transformation. AI-powered middleware solutions, advanced microservices applications, and refreshed user interfaces are giving organizations a powerful pairing that takes advantage of the trusted functionality of legacy systems and the expansive capabilities of emerging technologies.
