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5 Areas In Technology to Watch For In 2019 and Beyond 54 march 2019 D isruptive technology trends influence industries and consumers and accelerate the progress and transformation in them. With the potential to shape the present and future of the world, such technology innovations remain on the horizon of business owners and industry leaders. The intelligent digital mesh is going to include robots, interconnected humans, devices, content and services all driven by digital transformation. Therefore, industries and leaders have to evolve and adapt themselves to the pace at which the technology innovations are happening so that they don’t stay behind and slowly move to extinction. Perhaps, 5G will be the trendsetting technology this year. There are many other technologies that will be closely dependent on 5G to work, like IoT, supercomputers, drones and autonomous vehicles. Without 5G, none of these will be possible. The 5G technology will increase the current processing speeds by a significant number, and this technology can be used to perform the much expected remote surgery in rural areas. While artificial intelligence in surgery may look like a distant thing to achieve, it has already been bringing in innovations and accuracy with robot surgeons in the operating room. Below mentioned are some of the technologies that are worth paying attention to this year.