In the last 5 years, scientific and technological development has accelerated even more. New inventions appear every year, and over and over again change the usual world order. In order not to be left behind, you need to understand what technologies will be around the world in 2024, what industries will begin to develop faster, and where scientific progress is generally heading. It is difficult to make unambiguous forecasts, but at least the general direction can always be tracked.
Bioengineering
The pandemic has made me look at many things differently. First of all, the biotechnology industry. In 2020, more than $13 billion was invested in this niche.These are only public companies that are traded on the stock exchange. Many projects that were looking for money for research received them and began to develop their own solutions.
Among the most popular problems:
- search for a cure for cancer;
- gene modification;
- find he alth solutions.
Startups started receiving billions of dollars in funding, which moved the industry far ahead. As soon as the main panic subsided, people gradually began to reduce the flow of investments, but now it is still higher than at pre-covid levels. Therefore, the industry will develop rapidly and has something to offer.
Biotech
The introduction of AI and technological solutions in medicine is one of the best achievements of mankind. Now programmers are as important people as doctors. Large teams are engaged in finding solutions and research. What the development phase looks like:
- Fix the problem. For example: you need to find the cause of cancer cells.
- Select software that will help you make all the necessary calculations.
- Analyzing.
- Collecting information for tests.
- Fix reports and get permissions.
- Testing.
- Analyze the result.
Biotech is a new stage in the development of medicine. Processes that used to take years are now done in a matter of months. The development of biotechnology until 2024 will allow us to find out how much scientists can change the structure of human genes and whether they will ever be able to defeat serious diseases.
Personal Medicine
The other side of the coin is the attempt to make he alth accessible to everyone. An interesting trend has emerged in the United States: people have stopped going to doctors. Now every insurance company is trying to contract with the developers of smart devices (watches and bracelets) and a medical clinic.
It turns out an interesting picture: a person receives a device that monitors his condition and the opportunity to get advice through a mobile application. The direction will continue to develop. By 2024, it will definitely be possible to take tests remotely, get the results and download a treatment program to your smartphone.
IT
Information technology is progressing the fastest. New products come out almost every month, but the last 2 years have focused on two things: AI and the Metaverse. Until recently, one could think that both of these directions are nothing more than PR. But it turned out differently.
Artificial Intelligence
Since February 2023, the Internet has exploded with comments about ChatGPT, neural networks and the imminent replacement of creative and analytical professions. Neurons already know how to do what people study at universities and this is just the beginning.
ChatGPT can write an article, collect facts, analyze information and draw conclusions.
This could just be an interesting technology, if not for one thought. ChatGPT, which has been released into the public domain, already knows how to do many things better than people. And what version of the neuron is in the possession of the military or analysts of large banks? The latest technology in 2024 could completely revolutionize the entire internet industry.
Virtual Reality
Metaverses are an interesting food for thought. On the one hand, the technology is very raw, it is difficult to monetize it, and in general, no one is ready to switch to VR yet. On the other hand, the largest companies are already starting to look for ways to solve all the problems of virtual reality.
In the next 2-4 years, there will be a company that will take virtual and augmented reality to a new level. These will no longer be Zuckerberg's useless presentations, but full-fledged technology. Then it will be possible to say that people will soon move into the metauniverses and begin to live there.
On the other hand, the expected progress in computing power is not observed. Devices are improving, but not as fast as everyone expected. The concept of a quantum computer is still a theoretical option, as there is no commercial need for it.
Economy
Finance is one of the most conservative industries. Change of work algorithms is very slow. The management of the largest banks and financial structures is too accustomed to one style of work, so there will be no fundamental changes.
However, there are two very important areas: digital national currencies and blockchain. They should make the movement of capital more transparent. On the one hand, this will help to reveal crimes and corruption schemes. On the other hand, the big brother's hand will also slip into the wallet.
Digital national currencies
New technologies in 2024 will also affect the Russian Federation. The digital ruble bill is one of the innovations that will help stabilize the overall economic situation. Transparent money should reduce the level of corruption, as well as provide much more opportunities for banks.
Besides the Russian Federation, people are seriously talking about the national digital currency:
- EU countries;
- China;
- Singapore;
- USA.
So far, the project has been tested in African countries. India also joined the experiment. For 2022-2023, the results are disappointing: too few people trust electronic money from the government. Governments are looking for ways to solve this problem and by 2024 they will definitely find a solution.
Blockchain
In 2018, for the first time, they began to actively talk about the introduction of blockchain into the economy. Starting from business and ending with medicine. Processes can be automated using decentralized management and make the system check the conditions on its own.
Oddly enough, the blockchain revolution was launched not by Bitcoin, but by Ethereum. Smart contracts have become a potentially good tool to drive all intermediaries out of the market.
In 2024, we set a goal: to improve the blockchain and make it commercially successful. It is too early to say that the entire business will abruptly switch to new technologies. Cheap solutions that would simplify the workflow have not yet been invented. However, smart contracts are the future that is already here.
Renewable energy
Green energy is one of the most discussed niches of the last 10 years. So far, no solution has been found that would allow the industry to be provided with sufficient capacity without polluting the environment. However, in the US every year, about 100 different startups work on this, and really succeed.
Today's billionaires say that the first trillion dollars will be earned from green energy.
Industry leaders - China, Europe and Singapore. Most Asian countries are increasingly focusing on renewable energy sources. More and more windmills, solar panels are being built and they are trying to transfer the industry to alternative power.
Given the threat of global warming, the issue of ecology is becoming more acute. Despite the fact that large corporations are increasingly trying to make the "green" alarmists, more and more people are aware of the harm humanity has brought to the planet. On top of that, renewable energy will, in the long run, be cheaper than current fuels.
The development of science and technology in the period from 2013 to 2024 brought a lot of changes. Scientists and businessmen are already testing the effectiveness of AI and neural networks. Perhaps, in the next 10 years, most of the typical tasks will be performed by machines, and people will be needed to maintain them. If the current trends continue, then the whole world is waiting for a serious leap in development.
