Marshall Gunnell

If 2020 taught us something, it's that now, more than ever, organizations must adapt smooth and easy to “the new normal”. And without keeping up pace with technology, all of this work from home or online schooling would have just not been possible. Technology is now developing faster than ever: capabilities that were considered impossible a couple of years ago are now becoming available to the large public. We're entering an era where software robots, automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning will define mainstream operations and tasks.

Caresyntax, a Boston, MA-based healthcare integration and analytics company, raised a total of $31.9m in funding, after Surgical.ai joined Norgine Ventures in the healthcare investment venture with an extra $20M added to the AI based healthcare startup's funds.

This year has thrown most of our plans out the window and forced technology managers to reconsider their priorities. While the pandemic has meant that some projects were put on hold, it also has forced companies to fast track or accelerate other interventions that enable and support the new realities that we are facing. The coming year will see a number of trends in response to the year we have just had, but also in anticipation of what we see our working world looking like going forward. Here are my top 7 technology predictions for the new year 2021:

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