Ten years ago, Steve Jobs stood on stage and changed the world. He took all information ever created and put it in our pockets, along with a mobile telephone and a music player. And it blew our minds. The launch of the iPhone was a defining moment in our history not for what is was, but for what it became and the advances that it led to. Technical developments have come thick and fast in the last decade, and the exponential advances have not only led to a huge boost on Wall Street but also spilled over every industry from security to health, entertainment to architecture, ecommerce to transportation, and created real change in billions of people’s lives.
With so many different industries being transformed by technological advances, it’s hard to know which is going to create the biggest change. Experts from a plethora of industries are predicting the trend to watch to be across hundreds of verticals, including AR/VR, cloud migration, nanotechnology, blockchain, AI and mass personalization, but these all miss the biggest trend that is guaranteed to touch upon companies, governments, institutions and individuals alike.
The ideological shift to incorporate continuous transformation will be the defining hurdle for every business or individual trying to stay relevant. This may sound abstract, but in…