2018 is well underway. CES has brought some great ideas to the table. Our latest blog on self-disruption states the big tech giants are going to cannibalise themselves by finding new innovations. So what are the top 10 trends to look out for in 2018?

1. AI Foundation
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Creating systems that learn, adapt and act autonomously will be a major battleground
for technology vendors through at least 2020.
The ability to use AI to enhance decision making,
reinvent business models and ecosystems, and
remake the customer experience will drive the
payoff for digital initiatives through 2025.
Intelligent Apps and Analytics
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In the upcoming years, nearly every app will have some form of AI incorporated within it.
Some of these apps will not have been created without the existence of AI and machine
learning.
Others will be behind the scenes providing data, analysis and intelligence. AI has also
become the next big thing for a large amount of service markets and software, which in-
cludes enterprise resource planning (ERP).
Intelligent Things
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Intelligent things are physical things which go
beyond the execution of a non-fluid program-
ming model, with the aim of exploiting AI to de-
liver advanced behaviours and interact more nat-
urally with their surroundings, including people.
A digital twin is a digital representation of a real-world system. Well-designed digital
twins can improve decision making massively. These twins are linked to their real-world
counterparts, which are then used to understand the state of the system, respond to
changes, improve operations and add value.
Digital Twin
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143.6x70.9x7.7mm, 179g
A11 Bionic CPU
Dual 12MP
IOS 11.2.1
ƒ/2.2 aperture
1,000,000:1 CR
802.11ac Wi-Fi
Edge computing describes a topology in which content delivery and collection, as well as
information processing, are combined together, in close proximity to the sources of the
information.
Organisations will begin using edge design patterns in their infrastructure architectures.
This will be in particular useful for those with large IoT elements.
Cloud to the Edge
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Local processing
Cloud Data Centre
AI is the driving force behind many new intelligent things which include autonomous vehi-
cles, which featured heavily in the UK winter budget 2017.
Stay tuned for part 2 coming soon
PART 1