The COVID-19 crisis has geared up the digital transformation. Many big companies hurry to develop new digital capabilities to build and revise the post-pandemic world. Due to the COVID pandemic, most of the global IT population is sitting back, working from home. Anyone can secure one of the jobs that these new technology trends will create.

Some of the significant trends that already substantially impact a wide range of industries, such as AI on edge at 5G ushering in industry. These technology applications are creating ample opportunities in the era of the digital enterprise. The latest technology trends of 2021 areas listed below:

1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning

AI is one of the branches of computer science concerned with building intelligent machines capable of performing tasks and requiring human intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is one of the new technology trends because it affects how we live, play, and work only in the early stages. It is already known for its superiority in image and speech recognition, navigation apps, smartphone personal assistants, ride-sharing apps, and many more. AI’s main objective is to enable the computer to perform tasks such as decision-making, problem-solving, and understanding human communication in any language and also translate into them.

AI is spreading its wings across the sectors to creating jobs in different industry such as development, programming, testing, support, and maintenance.AI is also offering some of the highest salaries today, ranging from over $1,25,000 per anum as (machine learning engineer) and $145,000 per anum as (AI architect). In contrast, Machine Learning is the subtype of AI. It is the learning of computer algorithms that improve automatically with experience machine learning. An estimate of Automation will create 9 per cent of new US jobs by 2025, and the jobs are of that type, such as robot monitoring professionals, data scientists, automation specialists.

2. Robotic Process Automation

 It is the type of technology that allows anyone to configure the computer software to integrate human interaction with the digital system. Robotic process automation utilizes the user interface to capture the data and then manipulate the application just like the human does. This software uses this software to automate the business process like processing the transaction, dealing with the data and records and replying to the emails and many more. RPA offers many career opportunities, e.g., developer, project manager, business analyst, solution architect, and consultant.

RPA is growing fast, and manual process is so tricky that there is a lot of fear and prone to errors, leading to employee dissatisfaction. There are several benefits of using RPA are as given below:

  • It increases the speed and reducing the error in the customer-facing process, which increases the customer satisfaction rate.
  • It also reduces the manual data edits and increases the quality of data, which simplifies the audits.
  • It improves the business process and the employee satisfaction level.

3. Internet of Things (IoT)

Another new Technology trend is the Internet of Things; many of the devices are now coming with wifi connectivity. Many machines are enabled with internet connectivity, such as home appliances and cars connected to the internet. IoT has a great future ahead. This is the concept of connecting any devices to the internet and other connected devices. The machines are built up with sensors and associated with the IoT platform. The pros of the  

IoT (Internet of Things) are :

  • It will bring up lots of opportunities for new businesses.
  • Help in improving the control of the operational process.
  • Increase customer dialogue, trust, and retention.

  We are now in the beginning stage of this new technology trend. It will take time when IoT devices use in the whole world. If anyone wants to step into this trending technology, it must learn about and knowing AI. Machine learning, networking, hardware interfacing, data analytics, Automation, and must know about Automation.

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4. 5G

The technology trend that must follow the internet of things (IoT) is 5G. 5G is known as the fifth-generation network. It is the new global wireless standard coming after the 2G, 3G, 4G networks. It is designed to connect virtually with everyone, such that everything together, including machines, objects, and devices. Telecom companies like Apple, Nokia Corp, Qualcomm, and Qualcomm are making 5G applications. The new 5G wireless technology will deliver higher multi Gbps peak data speed, more reliability, increase availability and network capacity.

5G is one of the latest tech

5G is mainly used in three types of connected services: enhanced mobile broadband, mission-critical communications, and massive IoT.

  • Enhanced Mobile Broadband: For making the smartphones better, 5G new technology will assist the recent experiences with more uniform data rates, lower latency, and lower cost.
  • Mission-critical communications: it enables the new services to quickly transform the industries with more reliable, low latency like remote controlling of the significant infrastructures, vehicles, and medical procedures.
  • Massive Internet of Things: It connects with many sensors that can scale down the data rates, power, and mobility. 

5. Quantum Computing

The following technology trend to look at is Quantum computing. This computing form takes the benefits of quantum phenomena and quantum entanglement. This technology is also flexible in today’s time, where the spread of the coronavirus is at the peak, and this technology is also used to develop vaccines. It can quickly monitor, analyze and act on the data irrespective of the source. Quantum computing is again finding direction in banking and finance to manage the risk and, for a powerful element, fraud detection.

The quantum computers are faster than the regular ones and are quicker than some big brands like Honeywell, Microsoft, AWS, Google, and others. These brands are again moving their hands in the direction to make innovation in the quantum computing field. If you want to explore one such area in trending technology, you should have experience with quantum mechanics, probability, machine learning, linear algebra, and others.

6. Virtual reality (VR) and Augmented Reality(AR)

You must have heard about the technology trend in VR virtual reality and ER extended Reality, and AR augmented reality. So far, this technology trend has been majorly used for gaming purposes. The significant part is that it has been used for training with VirtuaShip, a training software used to train the US army navy and coast guard ship captains. In the year 2021, we are expecting these sorts of technologies to be helpful in life, whereas on the other hand, AR and VR have also been used in the entertainment, education, and marketing sectors.

One of the different uses is to train doctors to perform the surgeries. The fun factors in 2019 14 million VR and AR devices were sold. The AR and VR market across the globe expects significant growth by 2022, further opening new opportunities for professionals in the trending technologies. VR does not need a lot of knowledge specialization. It just requires necessary programming skills, and a creative mind will make it through the job more efficiently.

7. Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is less heard of due to its slow pace, but it is evolving with time like other technologies. The hackers who try to get data will not stop their job and will continue to fight away with the highest security service. Also, until the time we have hackers, cybersecurity will keep trending as a technology because there has to be something to defend against the hackers.

The amount of cybersecurity jobs growing is triple times faster than trending tech jobs. The cybersecurity professional’s need is expected to see a high demand in 2021.No no doubt about how challenging this field could be. Still, apart from all these, it offers a six-figure salary package. With this, you can also become a security engineer, chief security officer and can promise yourself a successful career path with this evergreen technology.

8. Blockchain

Some people may refer to blockchain technology as a family member to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. But besides this, blockchain has a security system that can be useful in other ways. Putting it simpler for you, blockchain can be stated as data in which you can only make addition and can not take away or change anything. Similarly, chain refers to the chain of data that you are making. Just because you cannot change anything from this, this feature makes it all the way more secure. No person or an organization can have control over the data because blockchain is consensus-driven. The use of blockchain technology will increase in the coming years and increase in several industries nowadays.

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The same is the reason that there are more demands for professionals scaled in blockchain technology. Just for your information, a blockchain develops and implements solutions and architecture by using this technology. To get into this industry, you need to have a nag on programming languages with the relevant experience, OOPS, data structures, networking, web app development, and flat & relational databases.  

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These trends take India towards a loop of being a digital India and aiming to see India as fully digital in the coming years. The technology trends have made significant moves in various sectors, contributing o their growth.

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