• By 2050 the projected power of computing will reach the capacity of all humans on earth.
• A third of all computing will be screenless by 2020.
• It will probably be at least another 10 years before terahertz technology for communications and computing is used in commercial products.
• Spending on cloud computing will more than double to $530 billion by 2021.
• Cloud computing is expected to grow to$ 162B by 2020.
• The use of cloud computing, mobile technology, e-purchasing, cybersecurity and online procurement by UK businesses could result in a £100bn boost to the country's productivity levels.
• IDC predicts worldwide spend on AI and cognitive computing will culminate to a whopping $46 billion by 2020.
• Frost & Sullivan finds globally accepted standards and higher levels of collaboration will drive next evolution in edge computing.
• The market for fog computing will overtake $18 billion by the year 2022.
• Flash forward to 2020 and global cloud computing is expected to be a 270 billion dollar industry.
• The market for high-end computing could double in the next 10 years to $10 billion.
• Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Interactive Computing have come up with a novel computational approach that could provide a more cost - and resource-effective way for internet communities to moderate abusive content.
• The combination of long focal length along with advanced hardware accelerated on-board computing will allow the Waypoint telescope to provide 1 meter GSD (ground sample distance) in super-resolution Earth observation mode.
  
• computer
• Over the next few decades, lower-income citizens will have access to computers and a wide array of electronic equipment.
• Plane manufacturers including Airbus and Boeing Co are racing to develop artificial intelligence that will one day enable computers to fly planes without human beings at the controls.
• The US tech giant's Messenger app will allow users to instantly send funds back and forth on their mobile phones or computers with no fees after linking their accounts to their debit cards.
• The domestic market for smartphones, computers and other electronics items will increase by 20 per cent this and reach approximately $6.3 billion.
• The fastest-growing jobs through 2026 belong to what one might call the Three Cs: care, computers, and clean energy.
• By 2029 computers will have human-level intelligence.
• Automation could hit India particularly hard because much of its high-tech economy involves - relatively routine work that is prime for computers to take over.
• By 2025 the first generation to grow up with computers at home will make up 75% of the global workforce.
• Physicists in China and the US have built a ten-qubit superconducting quantum processor that could be scaled up to tackle problems not solvable by classical computers.
• Some startups are already working on Blockchain products that will use the combined unutilised bandwidth of connected computers around the world to make websites run faster and protect them from such attacks.
  
• year
• The market for fog computing will overtake $18 billion by the year 2022.
• The market for cloud-based AI is small, accounting for only 1% of the global cloud computing market: it is growing quickly, at a rate of 52% year over year and is expected to grow to 10% of the total cloud market by 2025.
• In a few years from now smartphones, wearables and other smart devices will mean patients are not only more connected than ever before, but can more easily be monitored in real time.
• 2017 will probably be remembered as the year of serverless and edge computing.
• Autonomous trucks could have a global economic impact-which includes efficiencies and labour savings-of between $100 and $500 billion per year by 2025.
• Over the next three years, 45% of airports will invest in R&D in the next five years.
• The in-memory technology market will grow at a compound 22 percent per year to reach $13 billion by the end of 2020.
• In the next 20 years doctors will use computer programs to diagnose and treat most diseases.
• By the year 2020, there will be more than 29 billion devices connected to the Internet at all times.
• Mixed reality, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing are three path-breaking technologies that will "shape" the world in coming years.
  
• market
• The market for fog computing will overtake $18 billion by the year 2022.
• The market for cloud-based AI is small, accounting for only 1% of the global cloud computing market: it is growing quickly, at a rate of 52% year over year and is expected to grow to 10% of the total cloud market by 2025.
• A recent Mordor Intelligence report predicts the cloud computing market will reach $14.8 billion by 2022.
• Markets and Markets predicts the healthcare cloud computing market will grow to $9.48 billion by 2020.
• The global edge computing market will be evaluated at US$ 8,024.5 mn in 2017 and further reach US$ 13,313.7 mn by the end of 2022 clocking a 10.7% CAGR therein.
• The market for high-end computing could double in the next 10 years to $10 billion.
• In India, cloud services revenue is projected to have a five-year projected compound annual growth rate of 33.2 percent from 2012 through 2017 across all segments of the cloud computing market.
• The market for quantum computing is expected to grow at a CAGR of 35% between 2017 and 2021.
• Google expects there will be nearly one billion AR-enabled smartphones in the market.
  
• power
• By 2029, the computing power of a typical US$1,000 PC will be 1,000 times more powerful than the human brain.
• Clients will have online access to the computing power of the first IBM Q systems by the end of 2017.
• By 2050 the projected power of computing will reach the capacity of all humans on earth.
  
• system
• Researchers from IBM and elsewhere were able to demonstrate that a 56-qubit simulation could be run on a classical system by employing some clever algorithmic magic.
• Clients will have online access to the computing power of the first IBM Q systems by the end of 2017.
• The first IBM Q systems available with 20 qubit processors will have an improved superconducting design, connectivity and packaging.
• Over time Aurora will evolve to achieve the vision of a robust and transparent financial system that is available to everyone.
  
• security
• Using blockchain could dramatically improve security across the US military.
• In 2018, companies will struggle reconciling edge computing with operational and enterprise technology: In 2019, companies will pilot edge computing use cases run into security and regulatory challenges: In 2020, leaders will emerge and have the edge on serving customers.
• The Interbank Information Network will allow payments to reach beneficiaries faster with fewer steps and better security.
• UK officials revealed that the UK was developing cyber weapons to help counter growing cyber threats to national security.
• The UK government recognizes that technological advances potentially could allow a hostile foreign state to make an investment in technology-rich assets and thereby gain a position to remotely undermine UK national security.
  
• intelligence
• Plane manufacturers including Airbus and Boeing Co are racing to develop artificial intelligence that will one day enable computers to fly planes without human beings at the controls.
• Mixed reality, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing are three path-breaking technologies that will "shape" the world in coming years.
• China's government and companies like Alibaba are and will be investing many billions to tens of billions of dollars a year into Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing.
• By 2029 computers will have human-level intelligence.
  
• cloud
• In 2017, businesses will seek out greater expertise in order to use cloud computing more strategically.
• By 2018, nearly 50 percent of organizations with more than 1,000 users will move to the cloud.
• A recent Mordor Intelligence report predicts the cloud computing market will reach $14.8 billion by 2022.
• In India, cloud services revenue is projected to have a five-year projected compound annual growth rate of 33.2 percent from 2012 through 2017 across all segments of the cloud computing market.
• Cloud is helping to anchor a forecasted 17 percent annual growth for products and services supporting digital transformation projects that will reach $2 trillion by 2020.
• The market for cloud-based AI is small, accounting for only 1% of the global cloud computing market: it is growing quickly, at a rate of 52% year over year and is expected to grow to 10% of the total cloud market by 2025.
  
• quantum
• Chemistry and materials science are the first target for quantum computing because the technology could offer a way to model the interactions of atoms at completely new levels of complexity.

Sentiment analysis
Computing is one of just a few topics that displays a positive sentiment all the time. That’s because there are great opportunities for innovation and growth and solving many of the world’s key challenges despite many identified risks such as cybersecurity threats and the potential runway of AI.

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Metrics
Athena thinks that the tipping point for many of the emerging technologies such as driverless cars, IoT, AI and quantum computing will be around 2032. So now is the time to seize the day and get stuck into the digital transformation before it’s too late.

Year-on-year
This new representation shows how computing opportunities and risks have moved to centre stage in the last year for almost every sector. If your not digitizing your competitors are!

Topic map
We recommend you further explore the topics forecasts below at Shaping Tomorrow to gain further foresight on how computing may impact your organization in the future.

Heat map
Computing advances will be made in North America, Russia, China, India and Australia.  But, Europe shows nothing in this sector with only Germany and UK standing out. This must surely be a great opportunity for Britain in the run up to Brexit.

Graphit
The key topic areas highlight the arrival and further development of new systems including 3D, machine intelligence, big data and the IoT which will have a big influence on the market and consumers alike in 2025.
We recommend you explore these in more detail at Shaping Tomorrow to mitigate threats to your organization and to seize upcoming opportunities.

a) Emerging topics

b) Most affected sectors
And, in another new automated visual, by 2025 we can expect to see the most disruptive computing changes in manufacturing, education, retail, aerospace and defense and the security sectors.