My guess for the more obvious but still impactful technological advancements over the next decade would be the electric (and ultimately autonomous) vehicle, 5G mobile, and mass penetration of solar/wind energy with the associated innovations in storage and transmission.
Regulation of the internet is the elephant in the room. An ad hoc mixture of national laws will require either data walling or less rich data sets for everyone. This will also open up opportunities for startups take on the current giants. Building a new site from scratch is far easier than reworking the code of an existing site.
I suggest geospatial technologies will be increasingly impactful, not as standalone technologies, but in combinations that enhance insight, targeting and efficiency in any number of fields. In particular efforts to address climate change and other environmental challenges, and realising benefits of the internet of things in particular.
And on the risks side, ever more detailed mapping and tracking needs to be managed to avoid privacy disasters and other undue intrusions and exercises of power, and protect citizens' interests, in particular in smart city environments and areas where there are huge (neo-colonial?) imbalances in data-enabled power, eg between international tech businesses and people in emerging economies; between agritech and small-scale farmers.
I think technologies will mingle - probably with several companies inside a VC. For example, robotic process automation (RPA) combined with liquid biopsy and imaging could move diagnostics from a deterministic problem in clinical setting to a home/mobile solution based on measured probabilities and real-time information. Combining technologies would create a “personal area network” that includes real innovations not just an expansion of social networks. https://simonschase.co/here-is-the-only-public-company-with-direct-exposure-to-the-rpa-industry/ https://synthetic.com/ipo-grail-inc-aims-to-bring-liquid-biopsy-to-healthcare/
My guess for the more obvious but still impactful technological advancements over the next decade would be the electric (and ultimately autonomous) vehicle, 5G mobile, and mass penetration of solar/wind energy with the associated innovations in storage and transmission.
Regulation of the internet is the elephant in the room. An ad hoc mixture of national laws will require either data walling or less rich data sets for everyone. This will also open up opportunities for startups take on the current giants. Building a new site from scratch is far easier than reworking the code of an existing site.
I suggest geospatial technologies will be increasingly impactful, not as standalone technologies, but in combinations that enhance insight, targeting and efficiency in any number of fields. In particular efforts to address climate change and other environmental challenges, and realising benefits of the internet of things in particular.
And on the risks side, ever more detailed mapping and tracking needs to be managed to avoid privacy disasters and other undue intrusions and exercises of power, and protect citizens' interests, in particular in smart city environments and areas where there are huge (neo-colonial?) imbalances in data-enabled power, eg between international tech businesses and people in emerging economies; between agritech and small-scale farmers.