15 technology trends for 2024
The McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2024 provides a comprehensive analysis of key technology trends and their implications for enterprise growth and development.
Generative AI
Algorithms that handle unstructured data (such as natural language and images) to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos.
Applied AI
Technologies and techniques that use models trained through machine learning to solve classification, prediction, and control problems, enhancing automation, capabilities, and decision-making.
Industrializing Machine Learning
A rapidly evolving ecosystem of software and hardware solutions that accelerate and de-risk the development, deployment, and maintenance of machine learning solutions.
Next-Generation Software Development
Tools and technologies that enable modern code deployment pipelines and automated code generation, testing, refactoring, and translation to improve application quality and development processes.
Digital Trust and Cybersecurity
Technologies that support trust architectures, digital identity, cybersecurity, and Web3, helping organizations to build, scale, and maintain stakeholder trust.
Advanced Connectivity
Covers wireless low-power networks, 5G and 6G cellular, Wi-Fi 6 and 7, low-Earth-orbit satellites, and other telecommunications technologies.
Immersive-Reality Technologies
Enables real-time interactions in three-dimensional virtual worlds, ranging from fully computer-generated spaces to augmented reality, leveraging spatial computing.
Cloud and Edge Computing
Workloads distributed across locations from hyperscale data centers to local nodes, optimizing for latency, data-transfer costs, and regulatory compliance.
Quantum Technologies
Utilizes the unique properties of quantum mechanics for complex calculations, secure communications, and highly sensitive sensors.
Future of Robotics
Advances in robotics from fixed-purpose, preprogrammed tasks to adapting to new inputs with increased autonomy and dexterity.
Future of Mobility
Autonomous and electric vehicles, urban air mobility, and ACES technologies aimed at improving the efficiency and sustainability of transportation.
Future of Bioengineering
Application of engineering principles to biology to enhance health and human performance, transform food value chains, and create innovative offerings.
Future of Space Technologies
Innovations in satellites, launchers, and habitation technologies enabling new space operations and services.
Electrification and Renewables
Encompasses the entire energy production, storage, and distribution chain, including renewable sources like solar and wind, and clean firm-energy sources.
Climate Technologies Beyond Electrification and Renewables
Focuses on solutions that mitigate the adverse effects of resource consumption on the climate, such as CO2 removal and producing materials with lower carbon equivalents.