Alongside the jet pack, the lack of flying cars in modern society has been a constant reminder of how far we have to go for the past 50 years. But saw the first movement on this front in years: the first flying car to actually get tested out in the public.
The Transition is a vehicle that can drive down the street and take liftoff with just feet of runway. It might be a strange looking car to park in your driveway, but it just might be the most accessible and serious commercial flying car in existence.
To integrate new technology in , businesses need to train their workforce in a post-digital manner. For instance, the next-gen workforce needs to be trained in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things, Blockchain technology , and top Artificial Intelligence trends , among other future trends in technology that are bound to make an appearance in the technology vision of A much-anticipated tech trend in will be the sophistication of technology upgrades in the medical field.
Scientists at Princeton University, New Jersey, for instance, have 3D printed a "bionic ear" that can "hear" radio frequencies far beyond the range of normal human capability. Similarly, telemedicine and virtual diagnosis powered by AI and AR will need businesses to rework their business model in medicine. As cryptocurrency gains stronger credibility and digital payment systems like Google Pay and Amazon Pay grow in use, traditional banking will lose its ground.
In , traditional banks will hold greater value, but businesses will need to carve out more adoption space for growing digital transaction sources. Technology trends in will come with both unfathomable innovation and intricate connectivity, drawing the social responsibility of businesses to respect the ethical lines of the consumer data breach. Analytics will see dramatic changes for businesses in terms of product modification. It also plans to add a navigation feature, which will show optimized routes through the store to each item on that list.
While this suggests more sophisticated consumer satisfaction and better business, it also begs the question of what is the real cost of consumer analytics in collected for these services.
In , businesses not only need to come together to form a cyber-secure ecosystem but also review their take on data analytics. For that to happen, the present staff needs to be well trained for the latest trends in information technology and the process should be followed accordingly. We expect to catch sight of a technological advanced world with conclusive use cases of all the above mentioned technologies. There are the various set of technologies that are making up in the IT sector, and among them, a few are listed below:.
Technology is an ever-evolving root term, and whatever technology is in use right now, can be covered under the current technology trend. And for the technologies that are anticipated to catch up in the future can be credited as the upcoming technology trend. With changing times, technology has set foot in almost every aspect of our lives. Right from calling to control home lights, everything is on our fingertips. As we proceed in the future, technology is expected to make more way into our living.
Various tech giants have dived into the race of 5G technologies. Among all, here are the top guns of the 5G race:. She is a content marketer and has more than five years of experience in IoT, blockchain, Web, and mobile development. In all these years, she closely followed the app development, and now she writes about the existing and the upcoming mobile app technologies. Her essence is more like a ballet dancer.
Top 17 Mobile App Development Trends in What are these new trends in mobile app development? According to Statista, by the third quarter of , there are 2.
So, it is clear that the competition is growing, and to stand out, you will ne. Blockchain technology first made its official appearance more than a decade ago, in the year Credit-card sized computers like Arduinos and a few biomedical sensors cost about the same as a drug prescription!
Some individuals are already obsessed with collecting as much health-related data as they possibly can about themselves — it is not just people will illnesses, but people who want to lead healthier lifestyles or be better athletes. If these people upload their data and contribute to aggregated data, they are contributing to citizen health — just like open science, 5 except tackling healthcare problems.
At its simplest, they would be contributing to epidemiological studies; at its best, they would be helping build databases and web systems that other people can find their medical conditions in, and hence find support communities. Many patients end up with more time on their hands than they expected, and this is how some choose to use their time: solving their own problems and helping others.
Hacking is not restricted to patients: a doctor using a laryngoscope has the choice of paying commercial prices for a video recorder e.
The point is, technology is empowering people to do what they want to do, and in the future patients are going to take some of the initiative away from professional healthcare, particularly for diagnosis, chronic illnesses, and lifestyle advice.
These are some of some powerful technological drivers, and it is hard to draw a line under the discussion. We have not discussed many technologies that are both critical and exciting such as nanohealth, personalized healthcare, mobile health, telehealth and so on — the beginnings of all of these are already available and in use in first adopter places. What the brief discussion illustrates is the diversity, the rapid pervasiveness, and the complex trade-offs of future technologies. All the ideas we discuss in this article about the future have happened.
From considering technological drivers, we now turn to human futures. We believe these will be more stable and less likely to change, but will raise increasingly unexpected interactions with the new technologies. In areas like human error this is alarming, for if we believe that technology improves — why else would we adopt it?
In other words, the irresistible drive to adopt improved technology may exacerbate our management of human error. The economic drivers that push technologies have vested interests in promoting benefits and belittling problems. And healthcare has no end of problems: we all want and expect better care, costs are rising and performance is declining; living longer, and living with chronic illness, are other problems. Healthcare staff are over-worked and under-resourced On the contrary, many technologies take MRI scanners, heart implants are very expensive, and buying into them will exacerbate financial pressures.
In the future there will remain an enduring distinction between safety and security. In healthcare these mean different things: safety is about patient and staff safety — basically, following Hippocrates first do no harm — and security is about controlling access, in particular so that intruders, rogue patients and staff cannot get inappropriate patient access, whether that is informational access or physical access.
Security means stopping bad people doing bad things. If a bank loses money to fraud, this is not unexpected — we all know there are plenty of bad people around who want to get at our money. Safety means stopping good people doing bad things.
If a nurse is involved in an untoward incident, this is neither normal nor expected. It is easy, then, to think the good nurse has gone bad and therefore they are to blame — this is the conventional bad apple approach to safety. Indeed, if a good nurse has gone bad, this is a serious betrayal of our high regard of the nurse, which makes things even worse.
The bad apple theory is very appealing: getting rid of this bad nurse appears to solve the problem. In short: security is seen as an organizational responsibility e. Technology improves things that generate return on investment security, speed, efficiency, scale and reach and safety will not do that while users are scapegoated. Moreover, safety is hard to assess up-front, unlike simple claims for low price, speed or efficiency. Unless regulation requires safety to be assured, we would expect safety to take second place.
We therefore anticipate an increasing debate between safety concerns on the one hand and regulatory burden on the other. Since currently the regulatory burden for technology is negligible, certainly compared to the rigors of pharmaceutical development, much could be gained by strengthening regulation.
We suggest careful attention needs to be paid to statutory regulation. To avoid hasty regulation that is ineffective or rapidly obsolete, we need to think very clearly. Today there is a lively debate about regulating computer technology; some say for example mobile apps should be more tightly regulated; others say that rigorous protocols such as randomized controlled trials take so long the technologies will be obsolete once there is formal evidence one way or the other.
Conventional patient records are paper records in folders in cabinets. They are rarely all together where the patient is, often they get lost or duplicated, and sometimes destroyed by fire or floods.
Many healthcare providers have trucks shipping patient records around their areas. The obvious thing to do is to computerize all the records, and then use networks to ensure they are always available wherever they are needed. Looking at records on a screen is simpler than wading through piles of paper. Since computers already work, all we need to do is set up a program to scan or type up all the existing paper records.
Job done! If we have simply computerized the patient records, all we have done is made the large, scattered piles of paper into something that can be viewed on a computer screen, but now the clinician can only view one window at a time, and they may easily lose the big picture.
Information may be scrolled off the screen, or be concealed behind pop-ups. In fact, we have merely swapped the unusability of piles of paper for the unusability of a user interface. While we are very familiar with the ways that paper records can fail, unfortunately we are much less familiar with the ways that computerized records are hard to use and may mislead us.
But my patient records are different to yours. Well, that is not quite true. Computerizing my records helps computerize yours, but when those records are used, we and the healthcare professionals using them will have different problems.
As the healthcare computer systems scale up to handle more patients, the usability problems get compounded — in contrast, as bank accounts are scaled up, things become more uniform and easier to automate successfully. Banks also have a very different approach to problems; a British bank does not have to handle my Russian currency or it can charge me exorbitant rates, but a hospital that ignored my X rays would be negligent.
In healthcare, we have to pay more attention to the broad context of how information is used. The ideas have been taken up in international standards. UCD is essential in the battle against information overload and the law of unintended consequences. Originally, email seemed like a wonderful idea — it is cheap, fast, saves paper, and so on. But we are victims of its very success: now people have so many emails that they are overloaded it is hard to prioritize , to say nothing of spam and phishing, flames and people sending irrelevant or erroneous emails to thousands of recipients.
It is now possible for an ill-conceived email to waste thousands of hours when it is send to many staff. Emails are a recognized and growing problem; but the same trend is affecting test results, patient records, drug-drug interaction reports.
For all of these reasonable tasks it seems obvious they should be computerized, but doing so often results in increasing amounts of low-level information that can distract people from doing their real job. UCD helps because it emphasizes that no innovation is ever finished: we have to see how it is used, and continually improve it.
Email, and the rest, have a way to go, and UCD promotes that at each step we should be user-centred driven by the needs of users and what they are trying to do rather than technology-centred. Unfortunately, technology creates new users. Computers need technicians and managers, and these users also contribute to the UCD improvement cycle.
However if we are not very careful, the management of the technology gets a life of its own that takes a higher priority that delivering improved patient care. When investments are made, the experts are consulted — but now the experts appear to be the technologists rather than the healthcare professionals or even the patients. This can cause many problems. Systems that are under-performing and hence need improving often induce workarounds by their users. For example, passwords may not work very well, so nurses find ways to get on with their jobs regardless.
Unfortunately the people the other side of the computers just see the systems apparently working; they do not see the workarounds or the unintended risks nurses may be creating as they get things to work. When the system is improved, the workarounds are not considered sufficiently, and the new system may have unanticipated problems that even workarounds cannot overcome.
It is now obvious that X-rays are not risk-free. Every exposure to X-rays helps a patient yet at the same time exposes them to risk; it is now routine to make a careful trade-off between the benefits and risks. Similarly, we now recognize that pharmaceuticals are not magic and risk-free. In fact, we hardly understand how many pharmaceuticals work, and it is routine — in fact, a requirement — to perform the gold standard randomized control trial RCT and other forms of careful experiment before allowing drugs to be released to the market for wider use.
Despite our best endeavours, we have a growing awareness of worrying and complex side-effects, such as growing antibiotic resistance that has arisen from over-enthusiastic use of antibiotics not least in animal husbandry. Some of the original miracle antibiotics are no longer effective.
The question then is what to do with their data; it is very tempting to treat them as if they had survived and had been cured. Another example success bias in the scientific literature: authors of scientific papers want to publish their successes rather than their failures. So the literature under-represents drug trials that fail or uncover unwanted complications. In turn, this means that systematic studies of drug trials cannot get the correct baseline for experiments, since many experiments are not published.
Regulation is starting to address this problem. Goldacre makes clear that pharmaceutical development fails scientific standards; yet technology development, such as robotics or computer system development, does not even aspire to the scientific standards that pharmaceutical research is aware it fails to reach. This is worrying for the future, as technological developments may not be adequately tested, tested without satisfactory controls, and under conditions of vested interests. Most of the studies arguing Physician Order Entry systems are either good or bad are written by people using the single systems they are publishing about; they are not good science.
New technologies may have unfortunate side-effects or other problems such as forcing risky workarounds that nobody has seriously looked for, let alone rigorously assessed. The last paragraph makes a strong claim, but it is justifiable. Modern infusion pumps will have been certified for clinical use, and thus evidently passing the applicable safety tests and standards. Yet modern infusion pumps are driven by computer software e.
Indeed, software is regularly updated to fix bugs and to make minor tweaks. Modifying software can completely change the behaviour of devices. What makes the software control of devices so appealing is that manufacturers can create a variety of devices for different market sectors all on top of the same architecture.
Changing the software can change a device from, say, a simple infusion pump to a dose error reduction intelligent pump. But such changes can be made after it has been certified for use, without any further regulatory control. Furthermore, one will struggle in vain to find any scientific literature on the assessment, let alone RCTs, for such devices.
It does not exist. On the contrary there is a growing literature on the safety problems of infusion pumps. One can hope that the future trends include tightening the culture of technology development. The standards need improving, and the laisse faire culture of contemporary development needs addressing. The nature of human expertise is that it makes errors likely, 11 and clinicians are highly-skilled experts.
To become expert at some process means automating it, doing some or all of the task without continual reference to the wider situation. For example, when you learn to drive a car, you are consciously aware of many factors such as clutch control , but as you gain expertise, driving becomes automated and you are able focus on higher-level goals.
As an expert driver, you may find it seems easy to hold a conversation on a mobile phone, as you now have the spare cognitive resources to do so. Unfortunately if something unusual happens, say if a child runs into the road, you may not be paying enough attention to the situation to take appropriate action — ironically, when you were less of an expert driver, you would have had to pay very close attention to road conditions, and you may not have been driving so fast either!
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