disruptive technology

Question 1

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
~ as robots start to be employed for an increasing range of job roles well beyond the production line. With
investment in advanced robotics increasing, we will see the rise of
robots, social robots who can read emotions and talk, used as digital
assistants.

Answer 1

Robots Become Coworkers

Question 2

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
While 2016 saw increasing use of health and fitness trackers in the insurance and healthcare industries, disruption is more
likely to come from experimentation with technology for inside the body. Up to 50,000 people already have electronic RFID implants, and Intel now have a chip
for controlling smart devices in the brain.

Answer 2

From Wearable to Implantables

Question 3

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
Advancements in AI fueled machine learning and cloud software have lead to real improvements in chatbot performance, and real
opportunities for businesses to take
advantage.

Answer 3

Bots Usurp Apps

Question 4

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
In 2016, DNA editing on the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)
genome editing platform transform
biology

Answer 4

Genetically Modified Lifeforms

Question 5

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
Machine learning successes showcased AI as a (more) reliable way of replacing smart people working out patterns.

Answer 5

AI Replaces White Collar Expertise

Question 6

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
With the speed and scale of 3D printing increasing exponentially in the last 3 years, it will soon move from being a tech novelty to a core part of the manufacturing and construction process in many industries.

Answer 6

3D Printing Gets Industrial

Question 7

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
Companies start to think carefully about the effect that quantum computing will have on their business models, with the potential they bring for massive process and data disruption.

Answer 7

Quantum Computing Gets Practical

Question 8

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
Most of the large automotive groups are developing prototypes or have bought driverless tech companies and are regaining lost ground.

Answer 8

Self Driving Vehicles On the High Street

Question 9

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
~ The disruptive potential of blockchain technologies has in 2016 proven not to be limited to currencies like Bitcoin disrupting the banking and mortgage systems.

Answer 9

Blockchain Disrupts More than Banks

Question 10

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
No longer limited to the entertainment and gaming sectors. Education and healthcare are at the
forefront of this innovation, with other uses also being found in everything from real estate to travel.

Answer 10

Virtual Reality as a Commercial Reality

Question 11

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
Augmented Reality was only
really propelled into the limelight in summer of 2016 when Pokemon Go became a global phenomenon, and yet the AR industry is predicted to hit global revenues of $90 billion by 2020.

Answer 11

From Augmented Reality to Mixed
Reality

Question 12

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
Self teaching robots have been one of the breakthroughs of 2016, more examples of bot to bot communication in which one
machine shares its learning with another, and deep learning-based networks which robots can tap into and teach themselves

Answer 12

Robots Teaching Themselves

Question 13

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
One thing is sure – nobody can
afford to ignore potential threats. The proliferation of bigmdata and the rise of IoT makes businesses and consumers vulnerable, and huge investment is being poured
into the area.

Answer 13

Cybersecurity Wars

Question 14

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
~ With applications ranging from
gardening, transport, energy, sport to farming and medicine, connected Cars and Smart Homes are now all realities. Yet while it is in Smart Cities and Industrial IoT that significant changes to productivity, lifestyles and business models will be seen

Answer 14

The Things Are Taking Over the
Internet

Question 15

15 Disruptive Technology Trends:
With increasing public appetite for green energy, and a growing awareness of the transformational potential for the developing world, expect to more disruption to energy companies and see more innovation in solar, wind, tidal, biomass and geothermal technologies, and virtual power stations

Answer 15

Renewables and Clean Energy Diversify