Towards 2019 and beyond

2018 is It was a particularly positive year for the technology sector, full of innovations and products that put the user experience first. Consumers trust technology and believe it will help them. to overcome major global challenges in different fields, such as mobility, medicine, energy and agriculture, thus giving a concrete contribution to improving people's lives.

This is confirmed by a study conducted by Nielsenand commissioned by Intel, on the occasion of the company's fiftieth anniversary, aimed at identifying the perception of consumers and professionals regarding future trends in technology and innovation.

Italians currently demonstrate a positive relationship with technology, based on trust. In fact, 58% consider technological tools important for everyday life, while 31% believe that technology helps them live every aspect of their lives better and that they couldn't do without it. Positivity of Italians is also reflected in their expectations towards the future development of technology, viewed favorably by 86% of the sample. Let's think about the increase in IoT technologies within the objects that are used every day, a development also driven by voice assistants, which are increasingly precise.

Among the most innovative today, but which will enter everyday life in the next 50 years are: automotive, with self-driving cars (71%), artificial intelligence, already widely spread thanks to voice assistants (64%), and genetic therapies in the medical field (62%).

Focusing on the tools that are expected to be more useful for working we discover that the world imagined by professionals over a longer time horizon short term, for example the next 25 years, in first place we find everything which concerns remote operations. The possibilities offered by the 5G network have opened up new perspectives towards remote data processing, with positive implications in terms of teleworking. In fact, 57% of professionals always see PCs in first place as the most useful tool. used, 55% put the Cloud first, 52% 5G technologies and connections, 51% smartphones and 50% artificial intelligence.

2019 is around the corner and it will be further confirmation of trust in technology: increasingly close, ever closer oriented towards User Experience.