Analyst have presented and revealed their top ten predictions related to IT organizations and users at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo which is the world's most important gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives. The very last edition of Gartner Symposium/ ITxpo was held from October 4-8, 2015 where numerous keynote sessions were given to all attendees interested in finding out the new trends the future will bring.
By attending and following such keynotes, IT executives get the opportunity to get a general idea as well as specific insights they can use to further grow their respective businesses and get a look into the future of IT.
“The 'robo' trend, the emerging practicality of artificial intelligence, and the fact that enterprises and consumers are now embracing the advancement of these technologies is driving change,” according to Daryl Plummer, vice president, distinguished analyst and Gartner Fellow. “Gartner's Top Predictions begin to separate us from the mere notion of technology adoption and to draw us more deeply into issues surrounding what it means to be human in a digital world,” Plummer added.
Gartner’s top strategic predictions for 2016 and beyond included to what extend machines will create automated business content, how many connected things will be requesting support, to what percentage cloud security failures will be the customer's fault, etc.
Here are Gartner’s top 10 predictions for 2016 and beyond:
1) By 2018, 20 percent of business content will be authored by machines.
2) By 2018, six billion connected things will be requesting support.
3) By 2020, autonomous software agents outside of human control will participate in five percent of all economic transactions.
4) By 2018, more than 3 million workers globally will be supervised by a "robo-boss."
5) By year-end 2018, 20 percent of smart buildings will have suffered from digital vandalism.
6) By 2018, 45 percent of the fastest-growing companies will have fewer employees than instances of smart machines.
7) By year-end 2018, customer digital assistant will recognize individuals by face and voice across channels and partners.
8) By 2018, two million employees will be required to wear health and fitness tracking devices as a condition of employment.
9) By 2020, smart agents will facilitate 40 percent of mobile interactions, and the postapp era will begin to dominate.
10) Through 2020, 95 percent of cloud security failures will be the customer's fault.
As you can see, the relationship between humans and people where the main focus of Garter’s top predictions for this year until 2020. Smart machines as predicted by several organizations time after time will continue to take over more percentage of work done by humans, while humans themselves will continue to have security problems in the future being responsible for 95% of the cloud security fails by 2020.
You can read Gartner’s press release here http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3143718 to find out more details about each prediction as well as find additional analysis in this Gartner report: Top Strategic Predictions for 2016 and Beyond: The Future Is a Digital Thing.