Alaa ElShimy, Huawei Enterprise Middle East’s vice president and managing director, gives his take on why last year marked a turning point for transformational technology.
Trawl through the tech buzzwords of the last few years, and it’s clear 2017 will be regarded as the year that major technologies finally turned up to the party. The onset of 5G, automation, artificial intelligence and smart, safe cities has seen government and private sector investment spring to life, safe in the knowledge that these innovations are here to stay and pay dividends.
The ‘world is changing’ rhetoric can get a little old outside of the tech industry, but it doesn’t take a Wall Street veteran to sell the idea of microchips that reverse paralysis, or self-driving trucks that reduce accidents and casualties. If connecting people to things was the focus of the last decade, connecting things to things has been top of mind in the last few years.
Take the paralysis reversal example – scientists are wirelessly connecting brain-reading technology to electrical stimulators on the body, creating a neural bypass. This allows people to control their limbs through thought once again. This incredible use of connectivity between the body, mind and machine is exactly the type of outcome scientists and technologists have been reaching towards for years (IT isn’t just payroll and storage).
This story is from the February 2018 edition of CNME.
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