In our daily lives, the digital interconnection of everyday objects with the cloud or the so-called "Internet of Things (IoT)" will take off with force and will not stop until the refrigerator replenishes by itself what we need every week or our pair of shoes informs the brand who bought them.
In the next year, there will be 4.9 billion objects connected to the Internet, many of them without cumbersome cables that make us trip over them, using a technology called WiGig, very similar to Wi-Fi but three times faster, which means that monitors could be linked to hard drives wirelessly.
Next year there will be 4.9 billion objects connected to the Internet ( click to tweet )
All these utilities can be found on hundreds of thousands of websites by browsing the Internet with a fantastic Google Glass. They can be purchased with maximum security through a smartphone, which is easy, using a fingerprint or TouchID , the latest app from Apple (it is expected that next year 15% of mobile devices will have a fingerprint scanner). With our finger we can not only point at what we want, we can also buy it with it, but don't worry, for those who are really excited about what we have spent, a smart bracelet (Smartwatch) will monitor our physical activity. Wearables of this type will be sold by the millions, generating more bulk sms service in sri lanka than 7.1 billion dollars in profits.
Next year, 15% of mobile devices will have a fingerprint scanner ( click to tweet )
In the face of all this technological witch-hunt, thieves are already in turmoil, they will hack more than 60% of large companies trying to breach their security systems, but cutting-edge measures will be necessary to avoid episodes like those that occurred last year with Target, Home Depot or Sony.
The powerful Microsoft will not miss its share of the cake with the launch of its Windows 10, so long awaited for 2 years now, in which important visual and functional changes have been made, in which the classic start menu of the Windows prior to Windows 8 will be returned to mixed with the new menu that this operating system had, as well as a more differentiated interface for touch and traditional devices.
One of the biggest challenges for this year will be the energy sector's ability to provide clean solutions: solar energy, wind energy, biofuels, bioenergy, carbon capture and storage, nuclear fusion energy, and battery storage (including plutonium and strontium batteries). All of these will have to power all kinds of devices without losing the will to improve our living conditions.
