6 Tech Trends To Be Ready For In 2023

2022 has been a wild year for tech. Elon Musk purchased Twitter. We’ve seen collapse after collapse of crypto markets (web3, anyone?). ChatGPT was released. Massive layoffs were seen throughout the year. It can be quite difficult to keep up, to stay aware of emerging trends when everything in technology seems to change in the blink of an eye.

Nonetheless, we’ve compiled a list of tech trends you should be aware as you enter the year 2023.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur C. Clarke

AI Tools

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of robotic vacuums and smart assistants has already been around for quite some time. 2023 is highly likely to see AI used more in business, retail environments, and wherever else it proves useful to be in.

No-code AI tools, for example, are able to allow anyone to design and build new products. Retail companies, such as Stitch Fix, are also leveraging AI algorithms to recommend clothing based on customer preferences.

It’s also possible for AI to generate art, using tools like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. Google came out with Dream Fusion 3D, which can generate 3D models from a text prompt. Meta released Make-A-Video, which generates a video based on text.

Are you following this?! The future is going to be wild! It gets scarier…

Over the past week, the world has been going quite crazy over ChatGPT, which is smart enough to solve your algebra homework, fix your broken code, and even write a poem for you. However, stackoverflow decided to ban ChatGPT generated answers, as the average rate of getting correct answers from ChatGPT is too low. Users were generating answers on topics they didn’t know.

Crypto

Massive crashes. People’s life-savings completely wiped out.

These two short sentences sum up crypto in 2022.

While there are a lot of neat things coming out of the crypto world, it still has yet to disrupt the centralized web in any meaningful way. The web3 companies are also relying on centralized services from AWS and GCP (hmm…?). While blockchain technologies are surely going to be useful, people may be quite skeptical before putting their money into cryptocurrencies in 2023.

The Metaverse

In 2021, Facebook officially became Meta, with Mark Zuckerberg sending out various posts and videos talking about the metaverse.

Development in this area is slow. Zuckerberg said Meta spends 80% of its time focused on its legacy social media suite of apps, which include Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and others. The other 20% is spent developing hardware and software for the metaverse.

Although it’s not likely we’re going to see big improvements for the metaverse in 2023, it’s worth paying attention to the developments in the area, as we will surely see a significant move towards the development in the coming years, as Zuckerberg is highly confident that the metaverse is the future.

Blockchain

Rather than storing data on a single server, blockchain technology stores information on multiple servers in various locations. This sort of decentralized network leads to more secure, private, and accurate transactions, making it vital to the creation of cryptocurrencies.

Blockchain technology isn’t just useful for online payment systems, though. It can also be used to improve security measures. It’s also useful to prove ownership of a specific asset, such as an NFT (non-fungible token).

Front-End Development

A growing trend in 2022 has been the willingness of developers to abandon React, trying out new frameworks like Svelte, Solid, and Qwik. There’s lots of appealing front-end frameworks today, offering zero JavaScript by default, better performance, and cleaner APIs.

There’s new JavaScript framworks coming out every single day. 2023 is going to be no different, we’re sure to see many more interesting libraries and frameworks being released.

Systems Languages

In 2022, Google announced Carbon, an experimental, general-purpose programming language, with the aim of being a successor to C++. Note the experimental bit, it’s not yet ready for production code, but it’s worth paying attention to.

The dominant systems language in 2023 is Rust, which is loved by new and seasoned developers alike. Linux’s creator, Linus Torvalds, has said “Unless something odd happens, it [Rust] will make it into 6.1.” This tells us a lot about Rust’s future. It is here to stay.

Conclusion

That wraps the list up. What are you looking forward to in 2023? Let us know in the comments below.