When talking about trends in the past I have always allowed room for gaming. By now, everyone realizes that gaming is serious business. It has become mainstream. From our early childhood days to our final days as an adult we play games. Some play on the streets, some play board games and some play computer games.
Space is the final frontier and there is a race for it. Many countries are trying to increase their capacity to reach for the stars. The latest move has come from India.
“Turkey on Jan. 15 unveiled the ‘most appropriate’ route for the planned Canal Istanbul project, an artificial sea-level waterway that would run parallel to the Bosphorus connecting the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea,” Hürriyet Daily News has recently reported.
We began to talk about China around 40 years ago as a very cheap production hub. Many goods that people around the world used were being produced in China. A few decades later China began to invest in people and started to fund global brands. And now today almost every day we hear more astonishing news about China.
This is the second and the last part of the miniseries I write ahead of 2018. Since any article about predictions will not be completed without Gartner Trends Outlook, today I will write mainly about Gartner Top 10 strategic Technology Trends for 2018. Kasey Panetta writes in his report: “Artificial intelligence, immersive experiences, digital twins, event-thinking and continuous adaptive security create a foundation for the next generation of digital business models and ecosystems.”
For some time now, the term Industry 4.0 has been discussed widely in the Turkish business community. For some time now, the term Industry 4.0 has been discussed widely in the Turkish business community.
It has reached that time of the year when I write about the possible digital trends of 2018. It is always fun to talk about the future, and when the future arrives, to look back and see if my predictions came true.
Crowdfunding has deep roots in the Turkish culture. Many Turkish entrepreneurs turn to their families and friends who are generous investors. If a friend wants to invest in a business, his/her friends usually chip in. In villages, people share daily works and call it “imece.”
Turkey is known to have a tech-savvy young population.
