Future Trends

How the Internet of Things (IoT) is helping businesses grow

Just as the PC has become a staple of everyday life, so too has the internet. For those old enough to remember, the PC…

Could all grade 12 township schools going paperless create a generation of digital natives?

In January 2015, the Gauteng Department of Education launched the “Big Switch On” Paperless Classrooms Programme which introduced e-learning to seven Gauteng township schools….

Forecast for 2030: connected with a chance of smart

Facebook, YouTube, the iPhone, Twitter, Uber and Instagram. These are all things that didn’t exist at the turn of the millennium. Which was only…

Are we really about to enter the post-app era?

You don’t need me to tell you how important apps are. They might not, as Apple claims, be more important as the Industrial Revolution,…

What role will tech play in the changing face of urban mobility?

Parisians awoke to the sound of birds tweeting, children laughing and an unfamiliar smell in the air on Sunday as the city implemented its…

10 top strategic technology trends for 2016

For any organisation, big or small, investments in technology seem like a gamble. Get it right, and you seem like a visionary in touch…

The future of business: algorithmic and platform-defined [Gartner]

The future of business is algorithmic and platform defined. That was the message from some of Gartner’s most senior analysts at the 2015 Gartner…

4 ways wearables will impact on your company’s BYOD policy

James Bond is one of the world’s premier spies, but he’s not doing it alone. At the beginning of every film, he’s provided a…

The machines are coming: Top 10 tech predictions for 2015 and beyond

In a few years time life expectancy will increase thanks to health monitoring technologies. Refrigerators will deliver groceries and drones our clean laundry. These…

Consumer collaboration can help bridge the consumer chasm

Businesses have distanced themselves from people. By using marketing tactics to target consumers they have forgotten about the human being. A lexicon of military…

The rise of IP cameras: why surveillance is increasingly online

As the cost of bandwidth goes down, the appeal of IP-based camera systems goes up for companies that require a flexible, cost-effective surveillance solution…

Amelia is the AI computing system with an eye on your job

It’s an old debate, but it’s always fascinating and, at times, even scary. Will technology some day make human beings obsolete? It is perhaps…

Forewarned is forearmed: why wearables should be part of your BYOD strategy

There was a period a couple of years ago when it seemed that every other article you read mentioned Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)….

10 top trends that will define tech through 2015 and beyond

Tech is in a state of constant state of evolution. That seems like a throwaway statement, until you start to think about how quickly…

On the changing nature of memory: what the brain forgets, technology will remember

Storage card manufacturing companies continue to push boundaries with their inventions, creating massive memory card space, in doing so, allowing users to store more…

Got a 3D printer? You may be at least 5 years ahead of the curve

We’ve managed to do some pretty amazing things with 3D printers in the last few years, printing out everything from living replicas of Van…

Gartner’s Hype Cycle: autonomous vehicles up, NFC down

Technology research house Gartner has released its annual hype cycle graph, which shows where various technologies are in terms of maturity, business benefit and…

Elon Musk is terrified of AI and thinks you should be too

Just because Elon Musk is determined to change the way we build cars, and travel to space, and power our houses, doesn’t mean he…

Data scientists and Chief Data Officers – fact or fad?

When a new job title is created and introduced to an organisation, the immediate response is typically a combination of apprehension, confusion and sometimes…

Early adopter? Maybe your company should be one too

If you’ve ever seen A Christmas Story, you know that new toys are sometimes more trouble than they’re worth. Remember how little Ralphie begs…

Could cognisant computing be the guiding force behind your next app?

Think about the development of mobile apps for a moment. In the early days, they usually performed a single function often requiring a large…

3 key takeaways about how the relationship between money and tech is changing [Wired Money]

Finance is a difficult industry at the best of times but mix in the theoretical and technological changes it has faced in a very…

The physical location of your data still matters now, but it’s about to become a lot less important

Think back to 2010 and 2011. What were the big trends? We were just about getting started with big data and there was still…

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

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