Technology in the next five years

The future of technology is not just mobile, it is contextual also.

Let look at Products and Concepts that are going to emerge as we move to the next five years in digital technology.

1.    Advertisement Corner:  As more and more young people grow up in the digital age to become consumers, advertisers will need to find another ways of reaching them online. The advertisers will look for ways to reach their potential customers that required creativity and understanding of online behavior like Microsoft’s Bing Ads Intelligence page.   
2.   Education Technology Revolution: There are many free online causes offers from some leading Post-Secondary Institutions in the world called MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) like edX, Coursera, and Udacity, to mention few. 
3. Another EdTech gaint Khan Academy  provides free online videos lectures and exercises covering K-12 material and beyond and Microsoft Virtual Academy.Machine learning will be predominant in the future. 
4.   Contextual Computing: Humans can make decisions based on circumstantial factors such as where they are, who they are with and their past experiences. We are already familiar with  phone’s GPS informing us of present location based services or Netflix using machine learning to recommend movies etc 
5. Crowd-funding: Fundraising sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are examples of a decentralized economy for funders and to connect to new project. You can check Kiva , microsoft’s Give for Youth Portal and CausaVox to start developing a deeper sense of how the interest is being used to facilitate direct economic exchanges between people. 
6.   Big data: Big data is becoming important ideal in technology industry, government, company and organization. It provides information for predicting outcomes. 
7.  Cloud and software as a service: it makes use of cloud computing to deliver one application to a multitude of users. Good example is Windows Azure which is an open and flexible cloud platform. 
8. Online privacy: many people are no more concern about their privacy online, they freely give out their information online for valuable services they receive in exchange. Microsoft Corporation is working towards it .  Read about Technology is the answer.

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