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The last two years will be remembered for the significant technological advances driven by the pandemic that has led to the digitization of all areas of our lives, from health and commerce to leisure or education.
In 2022 everything indicates that we will continue in this line and the demand for technological profiles that respond to this new scenario, where citizens from all over the world buy, learn and work through a screen, will grow even more.
Read alsoExtended realities represent a technological revolution that can transform the way software is conceived: from the use of virtual reality in psychological applications to industrial and professional training formats, hospital care, marketing, advertising, leisure, tourism or education, going through mixed reality in Industry 4.0, military training or surgical trainers. Likewise, the growth and interest of technology companies such as Meta, Microsoft, Epic, Nvidia or Unity in the creation of a metaverse and in the existence of new extended reality hardware is unstoppable, although they are finding a notable lack of professionals to advance in that way. Next year we will see how many daily actions and ways of relating socially will be modified thanks to them.
A digital twin is a system that allows the behavior of a complex physical system such as industrial machinery, biomolecules or organs of the human body to be simulated by computer. In this way, they can be experimented with without risk. Simulation at this level requires advanced computational resources and very deep knowledge of physics and computational mathematics to state and solve the nonlinear differential equations that govern many of these phenomena. Digital twins are called to be one of the stars of the metaverse, in which they will bring realism and credibility.
Web3 is a concept that is gaining a lot of strength in recent months. It is a decentralized network proposal in which users are the owners of their data and share it in a distributed way through blockchain, the system that supports cryptocurrencies and NFTs (non-fungible tokens). The idea is to move from a model dominated by a few digital platforms that control all our information and sell it, to a market in which applications bid to use the data we want to sell. The dissemination, for example, of news, music or interactive content will also be decentralized, allowing direct contact between creators and consumers. Although it is true that the success of Web3 will depend on the massive adoption of blockchain technologies by the general public, and this requires a great effort to improve its usability and security, without a doubt in 2022 we will hear a lot about it.
It is a concept, within the world of cryptocurrencies, that emerged from the combination of decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain games (play to earn) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In addition to allowing users to earn money simply by playing the game, the user maintains ownership, through blockchain technology, of the digital objects that are created and used in the game. This makes it possible to buy and sell these digital assets (they can be works of digital art, characters, clothing, vehicles, land, buildings or anything else, within virtual worlds like the metaverse) on Web3 marketplaces.
Applications of artificial intelligence are growing every year. In 2020, the GPT-3 system with amazing natural language processing capabilities was already announced (made famous by the publication in 'The Guardian'). In 2021 we have seen the appearance of applications that use that network for different purposes, such as Gituhb Copilot, which is a system that helps programmers write code, improving its quality and avoiding errors. Microsoft has already begun to incorporate the same technology into any of their products. Image recognition systems are already in daily use in many areas of industry or administration, and in 2022 a great advance is expected in simultaneous voice-voice translation in real time.
In the world of cybersecurity, events tend to be reactive, because 'bad guys' are always one step ahead in finding weaknesses to carry out their illicit business. The situation is complicated because it is not only criminal organizations that endanger the network, but the rivalry between states that carry out cyber warfare. Artificial intelligence will play an ever-increasing role in surveillance, detection, and counterintelligence tasks. Companies must be aware of the serious economic damage that a ransomware attack (digital kidnapping) can cause. For their part, public entities have been the preferred target of this crime during 2021 because their internal procedures prevent the updating of versions with the required speed. We will continue to experience incidents, but we will improve how to avoid them.
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