#9 Internet of Things (Manufacturing)

A hyped technology known as Internet of Things is predicted to make changes in your life in 2014. Often   called as M2M, it’s a jargon for a network of machines. It is a set of sensors and motors interwoven to each other, in which one is used for feeding information and the other to act upon it. It improves productivity by bringing an exquisite sense of timing to global supply chains, thus enhancing the manufacturing sector.

#8 Cognitive computing

Cognitive computing is a term crafted by IBM stressing the fact that there is nothing artificial in it as in artificial intelligence. It’s a process by which computers learn and interact naturally like humans. With the help of this, human experts can make better decisions by swallowing complexity of Big Data. Watson from IBM is the most advanced cognitive computing among few others developed by startups.

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