Bangalore: Trends usually mean a passing wave of fashion which will be forgotten in the next season. Tech trends are quite different. When you have a lot of geeks spending most of their lives innovating a product pouring millions of dollars into it, the trend may not be just the different shade of purple that will just fade away in no time. Here are the top 5 tech trends that are to drive the future of technology as compiled by Forbes.

5. Consumer Driven Supercomputing

Supercomputers always does huge processing in seconds. Applying that to the service industry is the new trend. IBM, Google and Microsoft are racing to combine natural language processing with huge Big Data systems in the cloud. That makes large amount of data available at all corners of the world and that too if you literally ask your system in your spoken language. First such foray into this field is IBM's Watson which is supposedly helping doctors fight cancer by natural language capabilities, hypothesis generation, and evidence-based learning to support medical professionals as they make decisions.