Federal Tech to be Disrupted by IoT and Augmented Reality
An article on emerging tech by NextGov.com suggests the government of the future will be hyper-connected, able to anticipate and respond to the needs of its citizens, running on modern IT systems and employing cutting-edge Augmented Reality. The article draws upon a report released by Deloitte University Press this week: Tech Trends 2016, Innovating in the Digital Era.
This hyper-connected government of the future is likely only a few years away. The Deloitte report covers in depth review of a number of emerging technology trends, including the Internet of Things, Augmented and Virtual Reality, modernizing core systems, leveraging virtualization, industrialized analytics and the associated social impact. Each trend comes complete with use cases and reading lists.
The NextGov article suggests the most important lesson to federal agencies is the necessity to modernize outdated IT systems to better handle IoT and what it refers to as an inevitable “deluge of data.” Organizations should take steps now to modernize their underlying technology to better enable a speedy adoption of emerging technology, even the traditionally slower, large bureaucratic public sector organizations.
With the section entitled “Augmented and Virtual Reality go to Work” spanning 12 pages, there is much useful information in Deloitte’s report for businesses to absorb. The report cites many real world examples of organizations currently using Augmented Reality in the enterprise and argues that the benefits to agencies and businesses “will likely outpace consumer adoption cycles.”