2022 Has Added New Things To The World Of Technology
In 2000, American electrical engineer Jack Kilby won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of semiconductor chips or microchips. In the same year, the first mobile phone with a camera came to the market. Also in that year, the first ‘USB flash drive’ or pen drive was introduced.
2022 Has Added New Things To The World Of Technology
22 years have passed since then.
In 2022, the smallest microchip ever was invented. This small chip of 2 nanometers is made by ‘IBM’.
Again, when the first camera was added to the mobile phone, that camera was only 0.11 megapixels. Nowadays smartphones have more powerful cameras than 100 megapixels.
Apart from this, the use of pen drive, which came into the market 22 years ago, is not much anymore. Platforms based on cloud technology are now being used to store and share data.
The cloud technology market was worth $545.8 billion in 2022. But cloud technology is only a small part of a huge market in the $5.2 trillion technology industry. In addition to the cloud, many things are currently part of the technology industry, from artificial intelligence, telecommunications or robotics to everyday gadgets. 35 percent of the global market is now under the technology industry.
Meanwhile, new ventures are being launched every day in various parts of the world to connect with the large-scale technology industry. There are currently 1.3 million technology-based startups worldwide. And in keeping with the times, the organizations of various industries are also using technology in their activities. According to one estimate, by 2040, 95 percent of shopping will be done online.
In other words, we are now more dependent on technology than ever before. Using too many devices. Many smart devices with sensors or cameras are used in our daily work, which are now collecting and analyzing data in various ways. These devices are called ‘IoT devices’.
The full form of ‘IOT’ is ‘Internet of Things’. In the near future, all such devices will be connected to the Internet and work together. In 2022, there were 12.2 billion active IoT devices worldwide, which is more than the total population of the world. This number is expected to exceed 50 billion by 2030.
Meanwhile, the number of internet users has doubled in the last decade. And every year the number of internet users is increasing at the rate of 8.2%, compared to the population increasing at the rate of 1.05%.
Coming to the threshold of 2023, the total number of Internet users on our planet is about 5.5 billion. That is, now about 66% of people in the world are using the Internet. Most of them are using the internet with their smartphones. Currently, 4 out of every 5 mobile phones are smartphones.
Many people use the internet to keep in touch with friends and family. And the easiest solution to achieve this objective is social media. According to a survey, 90 percent of Internet users regularly use various social media. As of 2022, 4.65 billion people are using social media, which is 58.7% of the world’s population.
But although most people use social media, getting information about something is the biggest purpose of using the internet. According to the results of a survey of Internet users, most users come to the Internet to learn about something. And the easiest way to know is the search engine and the most used search engine is Google.
Now Google searches 8.5 billion times per day on average. Some of the most searched words on Google in 2022 were: ‘Queen Elizabeth’, ‘Ukraine’, and ‘monkeypox’. Top topics searched by users include the economic downturn, NATO, NFTs and election results.
Meanwhile, like other organizations, Google is also using AI or artificial intelligence in their various services, products and projects. For example, the efficiency of ‘Google Translate’ has increased from 55% to 85% in 2022, which is possible thanks to the use of AI in translation. In addition to Google, 37% of organizations worldwide currently incorporate AI into their operations.
As a result, artificial intelligence or AI is the fastest growing technology in the industry. This technology has applications like deep learning and chatbots. It is estimated that the AI market will reach $126 billion by 2025. Especially this year there has been a lot of talk about AI-made images or ‘image generators’. The American AI research institute ‘Open AI’ has basically worked on this. This company has developed a deep learning model called ‘DALL-E’, which can generate images from written descriptions. Also this year, another platform named ‘Scale AI’ has entered the market, through which the amount of damage can be calculated with the help of AI technology after a disaster or accident.
It is believed that if AI’s skills increase in this way, humans will not be needed for many jobs in the near future. According to the business magazine Forbes, AI will replace 85 million US professionals by 2025. Many may be afraid of unemployment after seeing such forecasts. However, experts estimate that by 2025, AI will create 95 million new jobs in the United States. That is, even as AI improves, the need for humans for various tasks is not going away.
But many tasks, such as driving, can require people to run out. In 2022, many cars with automatic technology have entered the market. In certain situations, these cars can move by themselves without the help of the driver. Several cities, including San Francisco, have introduced driverless taxi services for the first time this year. Again, this month the Chinese company Baidu launched its driverless taxi service.
Apart from car manufacturers, companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft are working on the technology to build autonomous or driverless cars. It is estimated that the driverless car market will reach $26 billion by 2025.
This year also saw a lot of progress in the electric vehicle or EV (‘electronic vehicle’; EV) industry. A record number of electric vehicles were sold this year compared to any previous year. In 2022, for the first time, more than 10 million EVs are expected to be sold annually worldwide. Apart from this, the number of electric two-wheeler or three-wheeler vehicles has also reached a record. As of September this year, there are now 275 million electrified two- or three-wheelers around the world.
More advanced charging stations for electric vehicles have also been built this year. There has also been a lot of discussion about setting standards for what charging ports for electric vehicles should look like. Also in this year the first car powered by solar power came to the market.
In addition to cars, this year also saw the first test flight of a fully electric passenger plane. This plane named ‘Alice’ was made by an Israeli company called ‘Aviation Aircraft’. However, the commercial production of the aircraft has not yet started.
Apart from this, there has been a lot of investment in different technologies such as ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS), Big Data, Machine Learning or Robotics this year. As a result, new and amazing technologies and devices have been invented. In 2022, the new ‘dual fisheye lens’ of the Japanese company ‘Canon’ came to the market. With the help of this lens, three-dimensional or 3D pictures or videos can be taken. Augmented or virtual reality headset device ‘Magic Lip Two’ has also come into the market. It is hoped that, among other tasks, this headset will enable remote training of newly hired employees more easily.
The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope of the present time, started working in February 2022. Again, the most powerful camera for space observation has been developed this year. The massive 3,200-megapixel camera will be carried to a space observatory in Chile in March 2023.
All in all, many new innovations have come in 2022, starting from gaming, entertainment, medicine, care, engineering, robotics, transportation or children’s toys. Apart from this, many experimental technologies have been invented, which we will see multiple uses in the future.