Digital Trends for 2019

E-commerce purchases, mobile as the main source of internet traffic and a new sensitivity with respect to the privacy policies. Users, increasingly aware, they approach the internet with confidence, from e-commerce to economic transactions, from finding information to sharing photos and files online, they are increasingly carried out operations. This approach is the driving force for a 2019 in which technology will be even more close to people. Here's how:

Voice search.

Two words are enough to activate the devices. “Okay, Google” and in an instant we have the answers to our questions. Searching on Google is often been associated with information retrieval, but voice assistants are also changing the way we approach search. 2019 will be the decisive year in which we will use our voice extensively to activate apps on the smartphone. It won't be more It is necessary to activate the application and select the actions we want to perform, but it will be enough contact Google Home or Amazon Echo directly asking to turn on the oven, increase the temperature of the house, set an alarm, etc.

5G network.

The advent of 5G is directly related to the previous point. Particularly in a world connected to IoT and artificial intelligence, a more efficient network powerful, it will be more and more necessary, if not essential. However, to achieve high density radio required for 5G, operators are trying to optimize costs through the use of open-source network hardware and virtualization of the wireless network stack. For 2019, therefore, investments in infrastructure will increase.

Visual search.

Between one chat and another with Amazon Echo or Google Home, there will be There is still room for ""manual"" research, as long as it is with images. Google Lens is the search function that offers the possibility to replace the hand-typed query with an image. In reality we know that the reverse search visual is present for some time. But today you can take a photo of an object you see on the street and send the shot to Google. Who understands and gives you a result. The images communicate with a speed and a different, significantly higher efficiency than the text. According to research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in fact, the human brain is capable of identifying images in 13 milliseconds. This goes well with the immediacy and speed of the project. with which you browse the information on your smartphone.