The most important technology trends of 2024

From cyber crimeware to the meta world and the continuation of the artificial intelligence revolution: the technology trends of 2024 will transform the world!

In recent years, dramatic changes in technology have transformed journalists in this field from a minority with limited stories to coverers of the latest stories and disruptive technologies. Technologies that have affected the whole world. On the one hand, technologies affect daily life more than ever, on the other hand, attractive and news-making personalities are involved in this field more than ever.

With the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk in 2022 and the public introduction of JPT chat after that, journalists are constantly involved in different news. From the purchase and sudden collapse of Twitter to the sudden destruction of OpenAI and Sam Altman's coup in this company shook the tech world. The world of January 2024 has nothing in common with the knee of 2023.

With these descriptions, any predictions for the technology trends of 2024 are foolish. But if we want to predict some important stories in advance, maybe these are interesting.

The most important technology trends of 2024

Twitter and Treads: Musk and Zuckerberg on the battlefield.

In 2023, Meta introduced the social network Trades as a competitor to Twitter – honestly, as a Twitter killer. On the one hand, Threads was not the only social network introduced during Twitter's weakness, on the other hand, all these networks had a weak start. Due to European laws, Trades could not operate in Europe, thus losing almost 400 million potential customers from the very beginning.

The start of trades in Europe was 5 months later than the rest of the world. A few days later, the European Union launched an investigation into Twitter due to laws related to hate speech. This investigation may be accompanied by a ban on Twitter's activity in Europe (usually such a strict decision is not taken / ecomotive). A decision that, if taken, will completely change the playing field between Twitter and Twitter.

The collapse of Big Tech deals: Big companies won't merge

One of the most important technological trends of 2024 is the beginning of the end of mergers of Big Tech companies. Previously, Figma and Adobe passed the integration. Many other companies may also follow this trend.

However, not all companies give up on integration so easily. With the heavy pressure that Sony and PlayStation are putting on Microsoft's game market, this company is pushing the purchase deal of Activision Blizzard with a value of about 70 billion dollars and it has succeeded. However, due to OpenAI's close collaboration with Microsoft, regulators continue to monitor the company.

The spread of cyber attacks

In 2022, cyber attacks worldwide will cost about 6 trillion dollars and this figure will reach 10 trillion dollars by 2025. In our own country, we also witnessed the leak of Snap Food data. Before that, the data of the national banks, Saderat and Mellat, along with official data from the government itself, were leaked in previous years.

Who will win the world war of artificial intelligence?

The most important part of the technology trends of 2024 will be the global war of artificial intelligence among the many players in this field. The war that started with the introduction of ChatGPT by Microsoft. Now in this great war, version 4.5 of this tool has been introduced by OpenAI. Google has also rushed to mobile phones with the Gemini model and has promised to implement this language model in its Pixel phones.

On the other hand, American lawmakers are seeking to limit companies such as Bytedance and Huawei in this competition by limiting the export of advanced processing chips to other countries – especially China.

It has to be seen in this great war, who can lift and hold the science of artificial intelligence leadership!

Metaverse renaissance

Facebook changed its name to Meta in 2021 and promoted Metaverse with all its might. However, we haven't seen anything from the Metaverse so far. In 2024, with Apple's serious entry into the virtual reality headset market, we can expect a significant growth of this market. Years ago, the iPhone revolutionized the mobile phone market. Will we witness a significant change in the technology trends of 2024 and the transformation of the Metaverse market with the entry of Apple?

This is a detailed translation of the Guardian article titled TechScape: Cybercrime, AI supremacy and the metaverse – the tech stories that will dominate 2024 by Chris Walker.