With 2025 just around the corner, it is time to start thinking about what tech trends will be coming our way. Tech moves at a rapid pace. Some things may pop up next year that we have no way of anticipating. Still, we reckon we’ve got a pretty decent idea of what will happen to the tech market over the coming year.
Agentic AI
It is no secret that AI has been the main tech trend for the last couple of years. We are seeing huge improvements every single month. Some tech experts believe that 2025 is the year that agentic AI starts to happen. This is when AI starts to think for itself and make autonomous decisions. It won’t be perfect, and probably won’t be for a good decade or so. But agentic AI is going to lead us closer to a properly automated world.
AI governance
At the same time, there will be a sizeable portion of the tech industry trying to work on ideas that help to govern the use of AI. As we start to give AI more control over various aspects of our lives, there needs to be a way to rein it in, just so it remains fair. This is an area banks are looking into heavily, as many are now using AI to make lending decisions, and they want to ensure that their lending decisions are ‘fair’, if you know what we mean.
Disinformation security
Disinformation is rife in today’s society. Companies are developing tech that makes it easier to spot fraud in emails and other messages. The hope is that by developing this tech, companies are less likely to fall victim to one of the greatest hacking techniques – social engineering.
Quantum cryptography
We are now sharing more and more personal information online. Think about when you play your favorite bingo game NZ online – you’re sharing your personal information, maybe your ID and almost certainly your payment information. You want to ensure that all this information is properly protected. This is why tech experts are working on post-quantum cryptography, or PQC for short. It is meant to be one of the best ways to encrypt data, and the hope is that it will work for the future too. Remember – computers are getting more powerful. They are finding it easier and easier to decrypt information. PQC should prevent even the most powerful computers from getting hold of your data.
Ambient invisible intelligence
This is a piece of tech that will get the conspiracy theorists in a twist, but it is happening. Companies are developing tags and various sensors to keep tabs on various items. In theory, through ambient invisible intelligence, companies could know exactly where their products are. The tag would be virtually invisible. Of course, the main use of this tech would be in factories and inventory management. We reckon there will be some huge ethical concerns if companies start doing tracking once the products are in the hands of the end consumer.
Energy-efficient computing
This will be a big one. Computing takes power. A lot of power. We need ways to bring down power consumption if we want to save the planet and if companies want to save money. So, we’re starting to see a lot of companies developing energy-efficient computing methods. We’ve only been able to bring down the energy consumption of computers slightly up to now, but this will change. It has to change. Experts expect the biggest changes to start rolling in throughout 2025, with major shakeups happening over the coming decade.
Hybrid computing
Hybrid computing will essentially combine computing tech for various tasks. So, companies could scale up their hardware requirements depending on the task. For example, if a process is CPU heavy, they can create a system that relies more heavily on the CPU, but if they gravitate toward a GPU-heavy task, their system will transition to that instead – automatically. We are already seeing aspects of this in cloud computing. In theory, hybrid computing should move in-house a lot of what is currently held in the cloud, which will offer better data security.
Spatial computing
This is just a fancy term for augmented reality. Well, sort of Spatial computing should allow a real-time 3D replica to be built. Users will then be able to interact with it as if it is in the real world. There is a lot of talk about how this will be beneficial to employee training, assisting people with buying products and even helping in the medical industry. It’ll also be great for gaming.
Polyfunctional robots
People have been promising this sort of robot for a long time, and it seems 2025 is when it’ll start to properly happen. Polyfunctional robots are built to do multiple jobs (most robots can only do one job), which means they might be useful in work environments, almost as a replacement for humans in certain roles. This tech will go well with AI.
Neurological tech
Finally, we’ve got neurological tech. This tech looks at being able to decode what is going on in somebody’s brain, or even change the information in a person’s brain. It can recognize your thoughts and feelings. This is still at an early stage, but you’ll be surprised at how many advancements have been made recently.
