From digital upheaval to deep tech: how technology is changing your world
Do you remember the days before smartphones? Surprisingly, they weren’t all that long ago. Over the past few decades, the digital revolution has transformed how we communicate, share information and so much more. These technological advancements have made us more interconnected than any other generation, but communications is not the only domain that has been revolutionized. There have been incredible breakthroughs in a variety of fields, such as healthcare.
And when it comes to solving some of the biggest societal challenges facing the human race, like climate change and pandemics, leveraging technology will be vital to ensuring a better future for everyone.
“We've just been talking about the big challenges we face as global citizens and that technology should be the solution to that, whether it's water scarcity or global warming or a food crisis, but also the smaller problems of people,” shares Piet Vandendriessche, CEO Deloitte Belgium. “So in that sense, I think we need to continue to invest in technology and also in people who can help develop the solutions we need.”
Continued innovation in areas such as biotechnology will help to tackle these issues head on. “Breakthrough innovations in biotechnology combined with new sensor and microchip technology, and artificial intelligence, all that together, there's so much potential and so much to do there and that's mainly what we're focusing on in our health research,” explains Luc Van den hove, president and CEO of imec.
Developing and investing in technology is an important, but ensuring accessibility and coherency for businesses and organisations is a critical component for successfully rolling out innovative solutions more broadly.
“Deloitte is there to help understand technology, to understand the full model around that technology, to understand how it fits into the processes of the business itself and then to help scale that technology throughout the organisation,” says Tim Paridaens, Deloitte Partner in Cloud Engineering.
To learn more, listen to our Tarmac Talks episode where Luc Van den hove, Piet Vandendriessche and Eva Droogmans discuss some incredible advancements in technology, and what the future holds. With additional perspectives from Tim Paridaens.