Trends 2021: 21 Trends in the technological field for 2021
Since we are already reaching the end of this last month of the year, December 2020, today we will do a kind of review to glimpse the future "Trends 2021", that is, the IT Trends for year 2021 from the point of view or relationship with the Free Software and Open Source.
Therefore, in this publication we will make a small «Technology Summary» of the best and most interesting of the IT world during the last 3 years, to get a good idea of what's to come in certain technology domains.
Trends 2021: Past, Present and Future
Where we come from and where we are in free and open technologies
The following sample of previous posts prepared by us in the following 21 scopes, during the last 3 years are a clear example of where technological changes (trends) are pointing favorably through the use of methodologies and technologies increasingly free and open:
1.- New Pro Free Software and Open Source Organizations (2018 - 2020)
- Open Invention Network (OIN)
- Foundations front y ASWF
- Projects OpenChain, asylum, ELISA, CRISPS, Red Team, Edge, masakhane y CHOIP.
- Confidential Computing Consortium
- OpenTitan
- ALL movement
- Basic Infrastructure Initiative (CII)
- Open Source Security Coalition
02.- Information Security: Cybersecurity, Privacy and Computer Security
03.- Technological Innovation
04.- Hardware and Free Software
05.-Digital transformation
06.- Compostable infrastructure
07.- Space Development
08.- From Apps to WebApps
09.- Interoperability
10.- Everything as a service
11.- Artificial Intelligence
12.- Quantum Computing
13.- Low code software development
14.- Big Data
15.- Decentralized Networks
16.- Microservices
17.- Edge Computing
18.- Internet of Things (IoT)
19.- Digital Mining of Crypto Assets
20.- Blockchain, FinTech and DeFi
21.- Education and personal / professional development
Where we are from and where we are going in free and open technologies
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Once each content of each publication of each area of the Computing and Informatics, or the Science and technology mentioned here, surely many will be left with the strong impression of an overwhelming boom in the Free Software and Open Source in this nascent stage of human development that many often call the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Let us remember that, in this Fourth Industrial Revolution, the existing Tools ecosystem (Applications, Systems and Platforms) of Free Software and Open Source favors the adoption of said new technologies., allowing the organizations may be more competitive and profitable in these times. Although also the human factor it is key, especially in the field of training and mastery of people in these tools.
"The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a revolution characterized by the use of a wide range of new technologies that integrate the existing physical, digital and biological worlds, which impacts on all disciplines, economies and industries, and even goes so far as to challenge the existing ideas about what it means to be human. And precisely, Free Software and Open Source in Organizations makes it easier for these new technologies to be implemented every day at affordable or zero cost, for the business objective of each one." Fourth Industrial Revolution: The role of Free Software in this new era.
Immediate future outlook
And finally, it goes without saying, that as creators, users and / or activists of the Community of SL / CA, our north must be and continue to be:
"The ccreate, use, work and support Free Software and Open Source, in the scope of Governments and community organizations, public or private, since these have the immediate benefit of increasing the impact of technological and economic resources, in favor of the progress and development of the same and their Citizens and / or Users." Progress and social development with Free Software and Open Source.
In order to mitigate and / or prevent it from being distorted in the midst of this current panorama, characterized by a huge expansion process, from the traditional niche of Communities and social organizations towards large business organizations and private corporations. As we reflect at the time in the following publication:
Conclusion
We hope this "useful little post" about «Tendencias 2021», that is, the IT Trends for year 2021 , not only in the field of Free and Open Technologies but in all of them as a whole and globally; is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».
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