With less then a month left in 2013, we wanted to look back on the biggest trends over the past year and see how it compared with Mashable‘s list published a year ago.
In 2013 we saw a rise in Big Data, in 3D printing, the death of the Desktop computer, and Crowd funding but it looks like they were not “yet” right about Flexible Devices…
Earlier this month, Juniper Research has released its top 10 tech trends for 2014.
It looks like our cities are going to get smarter, our money is going digital, we’ll wear more “smart devices”, and we will be printing a lot more products from home.
Juniper’s top 10 technology trends for 2014
1) Cities will get smarter
Cities will get increasingly smart as sensors and cloud-enabled apps connect transportation, metering, health care, lighting, and environment data, and make it actionable.
2) Mobile money will continue to grow
Mobile money is enabling banking and financing systems in the developing world via mobile wallets, which should continue to grow both there and in developing countries.
[Excerpt shortened — the original post reproduced the description of each trend from a press write-up of Juniper Research’s list. The remaining trends:]
- 3) Wearable devices will proliferate
- 4) iPads and tablets will grow in education
- 5) Mobile fitness devices will grow even bigger
- 6) LTE subscribers will double and 4G LTE will start to roll out
- 7) Device context awareness will accelerate
- 8) Ouya and other ‘microconsoles’ will disrupt home gaming
- 9) Personal clouds will explode
- 10) 3D printer sales will jump
Most of Juniper’s predictions make a lot of sense, and you can see the budding trends right now. But only time will tell. Who knows perhaps some unknown future technology will emerge and take the lead pushing these great innovative ideas into new realms of creativity!