Gartner: Main technologies of the near future

"The cycle of consumer expectations of new technologies" is the most long annual cycle reflecting a cross-industry view of technologies and trends which IT managers should consider when developing portfolios of new technologies (see the drawing).

"This cycle displays the technologies which are in the center of attention of the IT industry because of especially high level of expectations or what is not recognized yet. But which, we consider, have the potential for significant effect", Jackie Fenn, the vice president and the member of the Gartner scientific organization told.

As a part of the influencing technologies at peak of the overestimated expectations during 2010: private cloud services, augmented reality, devices tablets (like iPad), wireless energy, displays and 3D TVs with flat panels, power flows. While computing clouds and clouds / veb-platformy slipped the peak and corporate users will feel disappointment soon.

According to analysts, revolutionary technologies which will become hits less than in five years include "tablets", cloud computing and clouds / veb-platformy. In the long term, behind the five-year horizon: 3D - printing, architecture of delivery of a context, mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, terahertz waves and increase in the person will be revolutionary in a number of the industries.

Cycle of consumer expectations of new technologies, 2010

Click to increase. Source: Gartner (August, 2010)

The key subjects shown from a cycle of new technologies of this year: Interaction and experience of the user. New styles of user interaction will manage characteristics of use, giving to the organizations an opportunity for implementations – as information and data are delivered to clients and employees. Here such devices, such as "tablets" and 3D TVs with flat panels, displays and interaction of styles, such as recognition of gestures and movements in a user interface enter.

Augmented reality, context and world of a real web. Migration of web manifestations and the equipment in general - out of desktop limits, in the context of everyday life of people creates new opportunities for personalized, depending on a context, an information access. Augmented reality - a hot topic in mobile space, with platforms and services on the iPhone and Android platforms, and it represents new generation of applications. Other elements, such as standard 4G, sensor networks and architecture of delivery of a context develop more slowly, but will play a key role in expansion of influence of IT in the physical world.

Solutions, data-driven. The quantity and a variety of digital data continues to increase as avalanche, along with opportunities of the analysis and receiving representation from new sources, such as information on location and media. Technicians are in itself, such as forecast analysis, in many cases are worked rather well – their value consists in application for new applications, such as social analytics and analysis of moods.

Effects of cloud computing. Acceptance and influence of cloud computing continues to increase. In the scraper of consumer expectations for new technologies, cloud computing, in general appears only at pica top, private cloud computing continues to grow. Cloud/web - the platform is popular for shops of mobile applications, the growing interest in these platforms for the purposes of application development and delivery seems.

Periphery assessment. A number of technologies, such as mobile robots and 3D - printing which still widely are not used, but can already provide significant effect at the correct use.