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There's always room for optimism and predictions with a new year. Emerging technology has become a part of almost every aspect of our lives in the last few years. There's a lot to discover! In this piece, I concentrate on three developing technological fields: artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and space systems. These fields are already having an influence on our future, but they have not yet reached their full potential.
I asked a few well-known subject matter experts on those very topics to share their insightful opinions with you in addition to my own thoughts and viewpoints.
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Computational Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Could Revolutionize Human Civilization
Within emerging technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is a fascinating and fiercely debated subset. In the context of AI, science fiction has become extinct. Companies are currently developing technologies that will make it possible for millions of computers all over the world to run artificial intelligence software.
Natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence can be used to solve a wide range of business problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) can understand, diagnose, and resolve customer issues without the need for specialized programming.
Making decisions more effectively can be aided by prioritizing and acting upon data, AI, and machine learning. Larger networks with lots of users and variables tend to have more users than others. The main applications for AI-enabled computers are in speech recognition, learning, planning, and problem solving.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be easier to use as technological tools in cybersecurity to improve threat analysis and mitigation effectiveness throughout the organization. There is no doubt that data synthesis helps cybersecurity by reducing threats.
While AI and ML are valuable tools for cyber-defense, there is a chance that they will have unexpected consequences. Even though their use can enhance cyber defense capabilities and promptly detect threat abnormalities, threat actors may also exploit them. AI and MI are already being used by hostile and malicious governments as tools to identify and take advantage of vulnerabilities in threat detection models. Artificial intelligence and machine intelligence will be used in the distribution of malicious malware to automate target selection, evaluate compromised environments prior to initiating subsequent stages of the attack, and evade detection.
There are undoubtedly a lot of technological and security uses for AI. I polled three of the smartest minds I know to find out what areas of artificial intelligence we should focus on in the upcoming year.
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The Quantum World
In 2024, there will be a paradigm shift in the fields of quantum learning, research, and prediction in expanding society.
As we advance beyond classical computing, a new data era known as quantum computing is starting to emerge. It is anticipated that quantum computing will transform artificial intelligence and data analytics, advancing humanity more quickly than in the past. We will be able to solve some of the most challenging issues that humanity is currently facing thanks to the speed and power of quantum computing. Every month, quantum computing gets closer and is put to use in real-world scenarios.
Quantum computing will enable computers to process massive amounts of data and carry out calculations at extremely fast speeds. It will only take a few seconds to download the libraries. Researchers are developing quantum computers, which would compute at extraordinarily high speeds and enable entirely new types of analytics and cryptography.
Forecasts for Quantum Computing:
The era of quantum computing is coming sooner than we thought. Because quantum technology has the potential to be disruptive, in 2024 we will need to be ready for both its exponential benefits and threats. As a result, more funding for R&D from the public and private sectors will be needed. Quantum education and workforce development should also be considered and implemented for our emerging quantum future.
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| Spacecraft Launch Into Space. Elements of this image furnished by NASA. |
An Emerging Innovation Frontier
The use of satellites for communication is becoming increasingly necessary for our civilization. Countries rely more on space as a frontier for information sharing and surveillance that is both developing and mission-critical. Many networks are transitioning from terrestrial (land-based) to cloud-based communications these days, using satellites to transport data over vast international distances.
Satellite systems carry a cyber-hazard. They are also vital to national security because they monitor adversarial threats and geopolitical movements. In an effort to disrupt communications or information streams that are vital for trade and security, cyberattacks may target satellites. Indeed, an alarming incident that coincided with the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine involved an attack that disrupted the Ukrainian satellite communications provider ViaSat.
In 2024, satellite and space security will become more crucial due to our growing reliance on space, and specifically satellites, for business, communications, security, and intelligence.
Forecasts for Space Systems:
"In the upcoming year, both the public and private sectors will prioritize the security risk management of satellites and space." Global communications and sensing from space are essential to the free world's economic sustainability. Since many of the platforms are sadly not adequately protected, space cybersecurity will be crucial to safeguarding important infrastructure. By 2024, space exploration will need to be a top security priority.
2024 promises to be a very exciting and potentially revolutionary year for science and emerging technologies. We have only just begun to explore the ways in which new technological applications may affect our way of life in 2024 and beyond as a civilization. I hope you will investigate
