Gartner predictions

By 2018, more than 25 million head-mounted displays (HMDs) will have been sold as immersive devices and virtual worlds will have transitioned from the fringe to the mainstream.

By 2016, biometric sensors will be featured in 40 percent of smartphones shipped to end users.

Through 2017, one-third of consumers in emerging markets will have never owned a Windows device.

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By 2018, digital business will require 50 percent less business process workers and 500 percent more key digital business jobs, compared with traditional models.
Near-Term Flag: By year-end 2016, 50 percent of digital transformation initiatives will be unmanageable due to lack of portfolio management skills, leading to a measurable negative lost market share.

By 2017, a significant disruptive digital business will be launched that was conceived by a computer algorithm.
Near-Term Flag: Through 2015, the most highly valued initial public offerings (IPOs) will involve companies that combine digital markets with physical logistics to challenge pure physical legacy business ecosystems.

By 2018, the total cost of ownership for business operations will be reduced by 30 percent through smart machines and industrialized services.
Near-Term Flag: By 2015, there will be more than 40 vendors with commercially available managed services offerings leveraging smart machines and industrialized services.


By 2020, developed world life expectancy will increase by 0.5 years due to widespread adoption of wireless health monitoring technology.
Near-Term Flag: By 2017, costs for diabetic care are reduced by 10 percent through the use of smartphones.

By year-end 2016, more than $2 billion in online shopping will be performed exclusively by mobile digital assistants.
Near-Term Flag: By year-end 2015, mobile digital assistants will have taken on tactical mundane processes such as filling out names, addresses and credit card information.

 By 2017, U.S. customers' mobile engagement behavior will drive mobile commerce revenue in the U.S. to 50 percent of U.S. digital commerce revenue.

Near-Term Flag: A renewed interest in mobile payment will arise in 2015, together with a significant increase in mobile commerce (due in part to the introduction of Apple Pay and similar efforts by competitors, such as Google increasing efforts to drive adoption of its NFC-enabled Google Wallet).

 By 2017, 70 percent of successful digital business models will rely on deliberately unstable processes designed to shift as customer needs shift.

Near-Term Flag: By the end of 2015, five percent of global organizations will design "supermaneuverable" processes that provide competitive advantage.

By 2020, retail businesses that utilize targeted messaging in combination with internal positioning systems (IPS) will see a five percent increase in sales.
Near-Term Flag: By 2016, there will be an increase in the number of offers from retailers focused on customer location and the length of time in store.
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The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2015 are:

Computing Everywhere
3D Printing
Advanced, Pervasive and Invisible Analytics
Context-Rich Systems
Smart Machines
Cloud/Client Computing
Software-Defined Applications and Infrastructure
Web-Scale IT
Risk-Based Security and Self-Protection
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Lets discuss future predcitions for IT and software

According to Gartner:

By Year-End 2014, three of the top five mobile handset vendors will be Chinese.
By 2015, big data demand will reach 4.4 million jobs globally, but only one-third of those jobs will be filled.
By 2017, 40 percent of enterprise contact information will have leaked into Facebook via employees' increased use of mobile device collaboration applications.
Through 2014, employee-owned devices will be compromised by malware at more than double the rate of corporate-owned devices.
By 2016, wearable smart electronics in shoes, tattoos and accessories will emerge as a $10 billion industry




CISCO

By 2029, 11 petabytes of storage will be available for $100—equivalent to 600+

years of continuous, 24-hour-per-day, DVD-quality video.

In the next 10 years, we will see a 20-time increase in home networking speeds

By 2013, wireless network traffic will reach 400 petabytes a month

By 2020, a $1,000 personal computer will have the raw processing power of a

human brain

By 2030, it will take a village of human brains to match a $1,000 computer.

By 2050 (assuming a global population of 9 billion), $1,000 worth of computing

power will equal the processing power of all human brains on earth.

Today, we know 5 percent of what we will know in 50 years. In other words, in 50

years, 95 percent of what we will know will have been discovered in the past 50

years.

By 2020 worldwide, the average person will maintain 130 terabytes of personal data

(today it is ~128 gigabytes).

By 2030, artificial implants for the brain will take place.

By 2020, universal language translation will be commonplace in every device

With IPv6, there will be enough addresses for every star in the known universe to

have 4.8 trillion addresses 

CorbinBall

 New indoor positioning options will provide better event and exhibition indoor way finding and mapping.


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