Maps are a popular way of displaying emerging technologies and how important they are and/or how quickly they will impact business and society.
Almost all technology analyst firms produce maps. They do this to try to display complex information in a simple, digestible form.
Traction Technology Partners, a firm that tracks and analyzes emerging technologies for enterprise clients, has created an interesting tech trends map (click to enlarge).
The map's horizontal axis is based on survey of "members of the Traction Network (mostly CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT execs in the enterprise)". They were asked to rank the importance of a wide range of technologies.
The map shows the technologies that ranked in the top 6, with cybersecurity ranking the highest in terms of importance.
They were also asked to rank the rate of adoption of these technologies on a 1 to 10 scale. This is the vertical access and cloud computing ranked the highest on this metric.
According to the map maker's Medium article the goal of this map is to:
... create a relatively small, 2-D map that a reader can grasp in 15 minutes or so, and which accomplishes the paradoxical and essential job of pulling all the emerging technologies into one map while dividing them into different and more-or-less well-defined neighborhoods.
All technology maps have their strengths and weaknesses. This one struck us as being quite useful.
Six Points on the Map of Emerging Tech covers the map and its creation is more detail, including charts on how technologies outside of the top 6 ranked.
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But based on the people who are at Technology Traction Partners, it's a safe bet it's well worth reading.
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