Historically, technology has been growing at a snail's pace. We invent the wheel and thousands of years later, we invent the iron. These types of innovations have always had many lives to reach.
It was not until the last five hundred years that technological change accelerated. The golden age of the Renaissance ignited the spark for humanity. The age of reason has progress in medicine, commerce, science, and travel.
Then came the industrial revolution. Communication has become almost instantaneous. We were able to automate the work. And we gap could great distances with the steam engine.
The 20th century has become the era of technology. Our prowess as an innovative species has increased every decade, from the plane to the internet. And progress in the second half of the 20th century has accelerated exponentially once the Internet has arrived.
But technology has reached a plateau? Where the hell are our flying cars and our Robbie robots? Just hold your robotic horses for a split second, I have some good news for you.
The way we make money has not changed much technologically in hundreds of years. Yes, credit cards have changed the way we carry our money, but it does not fundamentally change the way money has worked.
The paper money used to be backed by gold. Now he is back by faith in the government and the market. And these currencies have always been regulated by a central government of a kind.
I know I'm simplifying things (economists beware), but the technology is known as blockchain already upsetting the financial world. I can not profess to know how blockchain works, but it has something to do with computers, equations and immutable big books. It's as far as I've ever had in trying to understand it before giving up.
It has become a buzz word in the world of technology that even Mark Zuckerberg could enter the game. As it stands, it is simply researching the various aspects of the underlying technology. But then it would not be wise to invest your money in this nascent financial technology for now (anybody bubbles?), It has already made waves and soon it will be a technological tsunami.
Tech revolutions are aligned like dominoes. One after another will land and shake the world.
The next revolution is transportation. We heard about self-driving cars in the media, but that in flying cars?
Whenever in a certain time a small start-up will invent a plane too expensive with foldable wings. These inventions do not match our expectations of what should be a flying car. And they usually require a track of a kind that is very practical in urban spaces.
But the taxi business could be the first place we see flying cars. Drone technology has made it quite possible for vertical take-off vehicles to enter the market at one-tenth the cost of a small plane.
Several companies already entered the race. Airbus, Uber, and even Volvo hit the clouds. Each hopes to be the first to bring air taxis to a big city near you.
And I can tell you, I would have paid some good dollars to avoid traffic in Los Angeles the last time I was there. Google, you put my life in danger too many times.
According to Isaac Asimov, "The robots will be neither current nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence. They will be "capable of general prehension, organization, cleaning and handling of various devices. "
Mr. Asimov wrote about the robots of our decade in 1964. And he was strangely accurate.
I bought a Roomba five years ago and I have to empty it and move it from room to room. At CES 2018, we saw robots that are supposed to be able to do a variety of household chores. But they do not do these tasks again very well.
A robot decided to flee its owner. Another dish refused to pick up garbage. And Aibo the robot puppy would not play search.
We are in the delicate phase of robots. machine learning is in its infancy and our current consumer robots are not the most adroit. But soon we will have robots that can do things better than humans.
it's hard to see the future. But when something important rolls around the world of marketing, it's hard not to speculate.
The other day a machine learning algorithm of the beat man at the Standford Answering question reading comprehension test Dataset. Just marketing will not be the same once we can use robots in our service.
Already, we use robots for marketing. Google already uses machine learning in their search algorithms. But we are due to a complete and complete revolution in marketing technology.
A day like Kocomojo Enterprises, Appery.io, TheAppBuilder, and others will only offer a way to DIY your application. They will rather offer to build you. But they will not be those of the building there; their AIs will do for them.
Learning the machine improves, Google will be able to fully understand the context. The machines will be able to read a blog in a nanosecond and make a decision on the ranking faster than any current algorithm.
Supercomputers will become the norm in the marketing one day. You will visit a website and the company will instantly know a billion things about you.
Get ready for the revolution of marketing technology.
Be patient, the world will change
If you feel like technology is taking too long to progress, you probably grew up in the 80s and 90s. During the last 30 years technology accelerated faster than ever in human history. And while technological innovation seems to have slowed down, it's really just a dormant volcano of potential.
If you want to stay on the verge of the next revolution, just keep your ears and eyes open. The world is about to change.
