{"id":348941,"date":"2019-10-25T15:40:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=348941"},"modified":"2019-10-26T08:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T06:42:28","slug":"11-bold-predictions-on-what-you-can-expect-from-technology-by-2030-including-buying-stuff-with-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/348941\/11-bold-predictions-on-what-you-can-expect-from-technology-by-2030-including-buying-stuff-with-your-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"11 bold predictions on what you can expect from technology by 2030 &#8211; including buying stuff with your eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Futurist, Daniel Newman, says that consumers will embrace emerging technology over the next decade, which is likely to include embedded and biometric payment systems.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the SAS Analytics Experience 2019 in Milan this week, Newman pointed to &#8220;The Futurist&#8217;s Roadmap&#8221; in which he provided some idea of what the future of tech will include up to 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is becoming increasingly clear that there will be a rapid growth in the relationship between humans and machines over the next decade,\u201d said Newman, who is a principal analyst and founding partner at Futurum Research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompanies will have to strike a delicate balance between providing highly empathic human-like experiences with the instantaneous results that consumers have come to expect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Technology will be the bridge as data, analytics, machine learning and AI will enable machines to deliver this balance in a more humanistic way that satisfies customers and delivers increased efficiencies to the enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newman provided 11 predictions within the Fourth Industrial Revolution, up to the end of 2030:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By 2020: Augmented reality will bring the storefront into the home.<\/li>\n<li>By 2021: Chat-bots will become inherently conversational.<\/li>\n<li>By 2022: We will see the end of the retail register.<\/li>\n<li>By 2023: Blockchain will bring an end to fake new sources.<\/li>\n<li>By 2024: Delivery drones will fill the skies as mass adoption of autonomous delivery begins.<\/li>\n<li>By 2025: More than 50% of brand consumer communication will be between a human and AI.<\/li>\n<li>By 2026: Industrial 3D printing will deliver personalised and locally-made goods.<\/li>\n<li>By 2027: Unless we wear it, we share it &#8211; the sharing economy will hit mass adoption.<\/li>\n<li>By 2028: Mobile and wearable technology will morph into implantable and embeddable technology.<\/li>\n<li>By 2029: We will buy with our eyes, using embedded and bio-metric payment systems.<\/li>\n<li>By 2030: Driverless vehicles will surpass driven vehicles as autonomous, electric vehicles take over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Newman launched \u201cExperience 2030: The Future of Customer Experience\u201d by Futurum Research and sponsored by analytics firm SAS in Milan on Wednesday (23 October).<\/p>\n<p>According to the survey results consumers are expecting to further embrace new technologies by 2030:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>80% say they expect to accept delivery of a product by drone or autonomous vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>81% say they expect to engage with chatbots.<\/li>\n<li>78% expect to use an augmented, virtual, or mixed reality app to see how a product will look \u2013 such as how a piece of clothing might look on a shopper or how a piece of furniture might look in a home.<\/li>\n<li>56% expect to be \u201cvisiting\u201d remote locations or experiencing vacation and entertainment events through mixed reality devices by 2025.<\/li>\n<li>8 out of 10 expect to use a smart assistant (such as Google Home, Amazon Alexa, etc.) to make an online purchase or control a smart home.<\/li>\n<li>78% say they expect they\u2019ll be controlling other devices with their wearables.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/348677\/but-will-the-machines-take-our-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">But will the machines take our jobs?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Futurist, Daniel Newman, says that consumers will embrace emerging technology over the next decade which is likely to include embedded and biometric payment systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":348967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[14475,26,3876],"class_list":["post-348941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","category-trending","tag-futurum-research","tag-headline","tag-sas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348941"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349081,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348941\/revisions\/349081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}