Future of Information Technology (IT)

As the world develops, new emerging information technologies will pop-up on the market and for businesses to gain competitive advantage; they will have to learn how to use information technology to their advantage. Employees must become literate about the latest information technology so that they can cope with demanding challenges at work.

Information technology as a subject will not change, it’s the tools of information technology that will change, more technologies will be developed to simplify the way we use IT at work, at home, and everywhere in our lives.

Information technology tools like computers will still be useful in the future and these computers will change their functionality with a main goal of improving the way we do business or transfer information. Institutions like Banks, Schools, Shopping Malls, Government agencies will all have to use new information technology tools to serve their users basing on the needs and expectations of their users.

Future information technology will change the face of business. Already we have seen how current information Technology has shaped the e-commerce world. Now with services likeGoogle Walletand Squareup, buyers can easily turn their mobile phones as payment gateways, the introduction of these new e-commerce payment gateways have shaped our e-commerce world and more technologies will merge as consumer demands increase with time.

As information technology continues to become cheaper, every object that can conceivably provide valuable information will eventually be equipped with information technology.

The massive amounts of data produced by these objects will not be processed by traditional software written and tested by humans. Instead, other information technology (what we call AI today) will analyze it and look for patterns.

IT will continue to be a good career choice for people with an aptitude and interest for it, but the percentage of the workforce employed in IT will not grow, as more and more systems will be self-learning instead of programmed by humans.