What better way to spend the last day of the year than making up predictions for the next one?
- Technology layoffs are temporary, and reshuffles brain trust in the
industry without associated increase in labor costs. Why?
- Smart-X (substitute X for phone, car, home, office, and entertainment) trends continue, and accelerate through advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Both chat-gpt3 and generative AI are impressive tools that will find widespread use in these industries.
- Cloud computing will continue to prosper, despite having negative effects on an organizations operational costs, will continue increasing usage due to the Smart-X trend.
- Cybersecurity and compliance tooling demand investment and gain
traction. Why?
- Well published failure of decentralized finance to operate in a loosely regulated world. Crypto will not vanish, but maybe and hopefully evolve to be useful in the real world?
- Cybersecurity will continue becoming even more challenging, especially with generative AI now being use to producing phishing content.
- Worldwide trade suffers, and we all become poorer. Why?
- Nationalist governments are ruling strong in China, Russia, India, and other middle east countries, and feel disadvantaged in their dealing with the west.
- Energy industry is starting to get disrupted with the rise of electric only cars. The inflection point may still not be reached within 2023, but it is getting a lot of high up people uneasy.