According to Gartner Glossary, digitalization is the case where a business adopts technology to deliver its products and services to its customers. Telehealth is a perfect example of digitalization, where healthcare providers are embracing digital business models to deliver better services faster. Being a new sector, where is telehealth now? Where is it headed? This…
Social media is no longer a foreign concept, at least to more than 3.5 billion people on the internet. Notably, the number of people using any form of social media has been on the rise in the early 2000s. The social media landscape has evolved so much that companies that were prominent earlier are nowhere today in…
Sheikh Zaki Yamani, a former oil minister for Saudi Arabia, once observed that the end of the oil age was near. Close to two decades later, the world seems to be as addicted to the ‘black gold’ as during the oil embargo of the ‘70s. Interestingly, the threat of a “cataclysmic crash in the price of oil,”…
A report by the Office of National Statistics of the United Kingdom predicted that close 1.5 million Brits could lose jobs to automation. According to the report, improved functionality of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) could enable them to work as waiters, bar staff, and even shelf fillers. Although such news might paint a bleak picture of what…
The year 2019 has experienced vicious wildfires in California, Australia, and many parts of the world. In California, experts warn that there is a threat of more fires going forward due to warming climate. On the other hand, the wildfires in Queensland and New South Wales in Australia have been blamed on an abnormally long drought season. Interestingly,…
Biotechnology is a new concept from a scientific point of view. The first serious developments in the industry began to be noticeable in the 1970s. A few years later, it seems biotechnology holds the answers to all problems facing this planet and its inhabitants. Fast forward, the industry is massive. Growth of the industry in…
Global internet use is growing with over 1 million new users coming online daily. This implies many more people share their data today than ever before. To cybercriminals, increased internet use is just an enlarging loot for them to plunder. Cybercriminals target private data that they can exploit to commit more sophisticated crimes. By June 2019, there…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer stuff for the movies but a reality that is unfolding. The technology is slowly permeating human life through driverless cars, the use of algorithms to accomplish tasks, facial recognition and so on. Notably, the presence of AI in emerging technologies is immense. Interestingly, a World Economic Forum analysis concluded that AI…
Virtual Reality (VR) first emerged as an aspect of entertainment that is focused on taking people away from the familiar environment. Incidentally, VR has grown to find applications in diverse industries. This informs the current surge in interest in VR and its potential by companies all across the globe. The current state of VR industry…
In the past few years, Artificial Intelligence has been one of the technologies that are growing fast and disrupting almost every sector. Implementation of AI is very vital in defining future growth in various industries and manufacturing will be the most impacted on the industry. Countries and several businesses across the globe have been trying…
