IBM: 5 Predictions for the next 5 years

IBM has just unveiled its latest 5 forecasts for the next 5 years. These predictions are based on a survey of 220,000 of technical practitioners, and the results of a full analysis by IBM's many laboratories. Every year in the last 8 years, IBM has to make such forecasts-so that the company can focus on the development of firepower. In summary, IBM's 5 predictions are: Smarter classrooms-smarter stores-smarter medicine-smarter security-smarter Cities These predictions are based on the fact that machines are becoming smarter and more compact. Machines try to understand people, analyze reasons, and participate in more natural and personalized ways. Cloud computing, large data analysis, and adaptive learning will provide technical support for these innovations. Of course, IBM also believes that these innovations will lead to privacy and security issues, although these technologies will have appropriate security and privacy protection. 1, the more intelligent classroom online classroom will be to understand students. IBM believes that the classrooms of the future will give educators the tools to learn about each student and provide tailored courses for each student. IBM believes that future teachers will use the e-learning platform's test scores, attendance, student behavior, such as "vertical data" to understand students. The complex analysis provided through the cloud Platform helps teachers determine which students are at risk, what learning disabilities are, and how to help students. IBM, with 170,000 students in the New York State Valley County Public School (Gwinnett Shawnee-Schools), is currently working on a research project aimed at increasing the graduation rate, and after spending 10 billion of billions of dollars on the analysis, it believes it can handle the big data, Help students achieve this goal. These analytical tools certainly do not replace teachers, but one class has several dozens of people, and the teacher has no way to be exhaustive. These tools can greatly improve teachers ' efficiency and help them identify students with dyslexia and exceptional talent. 2. Smarter stores IBM believes future local retailers will beat online stores. Global online turnover last year broke 1 trillion dollars. While physical retailers are struggling under the impact of the E-commerce giants, innovation will help the physical stores reverse the situation. Retailers will use the immediacy of the store and its proximity to customers to create an experience that the shop cannot replicate. Innovation will bring the power of the web to where buyers can touch it. The retailer will use artificial intelligence such as Watson to run the web to arm the salesman's brain, while augmented reality can provide richer information on the display shelves. With these technologies, stores will be able to predict most of the buyers ' needs. And there is no need to wait 2 days for the arrival. IBM's Meyerson assumed a scenario in which customers would ask whether or not to see a camera, or whether they needed a salesperson to guide them. He sees no need for such forward-looking initiatives of serviceCustomers looking for help will be very powerful. In the future, even the shop will have to consider setting up showrooms to help sell. and the individual-operated entity stores have the technical support to be able to rival the big E-commerce giants. 3. The more intelligent medical situation is grim, and the global cancer rate is expected to increase by 75% by 2030. But IBM expects doctors to help restore health by associating the patient's DNA with treatment results within 5 years. Computers will help doctors understand the impact of tumours on patients to DNA levels, and computers can find the most effective drugs to fight cancer and provide personalized treatment. The hope is that through genetic profiling, the time to determine treatment is reduced from several weeks to several minutes. 4, more intelligent security of our password, identity, equipment, more than ever before. But security is highly fragmented. IBM envisages that there will be trained digital guardians dedicated to the protection of entrusted persons and things in the future. The digital defender verifies the user's identity on different devices through background, environmental, and historical data analysis. The defender can learn about user habits and extrapolate beyond normal behavior, and may even detect the theft of someone's identity. The identity of someone who has a full understanding of them will be difficult to steal. In this case, the user does not have to look for signs of attack, the digital defender will observe the operation of the device, and then identify the exception, and alarm. 5, Smarter City IBM believes that future cities will help people live better. The urban population of the developing world is expected to account for 80% of the global urban population by 2030, and by the year 2050, 70% of the global population will be urban. With such a high rate of urbanization, only automation can carry out urban management, and by learning the needs, preferences, doings and migrations of urban residents, intelligent cities will be able to understand the billions of events in real time. IBM predicts that the city will digest the information that the public is free to provide and then deploy the resources to where it is needed. Mobile devices and social interaction can help people talk to city leaders. IBM has launched a similar crowdsourcing tool in Brazil, which allows users to report difficult travel problems through their mobile phones, allowing the government to improve roads and help people with disabilities travel better. The benefit of a hyper-interconnected city is that it can receive real-time feedback, thus making the government respond much more quickly.