IEEE – Tech MegaTrends, 2024

The IEEE Future Direction Committee has released its 2024 Technology Megatrends focusing on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The report predicts that AGI will continue to support other technologies, sustainability will impact all vertical and horizontal technologies, and digital transformation will focus on automation. The report suggests predictions for six technologies within each megatrend, highlighting ubiquitous connectivity for DT and generative AI for AGI as the most likely to succeed. The technologies with the most impact on humanity are genomics and healthcare. The report compares its insights with those of IEEE Computer Society and analyzes biases in megatrends. It emphasizes the importance of understanding megatrends, which impact multiple factors including technological, economic, social, and ecological aspects. Megatrends are of global importance, require regulation, and evolve over years to decades, influencing perception and multiple technologies.