Emerging Technology: Final Integration

Information technology students, in practical definition, are professionals that develop expertise on injecting technology to different aspects of a society, particularly, business. Hence, it is imperative for these professionals to keep track of different technologies so as to discern sustainability of technologies being applied. Being ahead by knowing where the trend of certain technology is moving to is a certain power to make current decisions whether to acquire the technology or not. This is again imperative since IT professionals are the ones who equip a business towards technological competencies and it is nearly covering all other business competencies since information technologies are implemented across the organization.

In my own understanding, a technology is considered emerging if it can satisfy these two conditions: First, it should be able to change how people do their work; second, it should be presently acquired or demanded by people from sectors. Given the two, a technology can be considered emerging and how long will it span as an emerging technology would depend on its innovation. Innovation in this case would be meeting constantly changing need of the people towards that certain technology.

Aside from technology awareness, my IT career is affected since technologies will start changing and I should be able to cope up on these changes in terms of knowledge to be able to identify rightful technologies to use in doing IT projects. This will be a great help for IT professionals like me. Learning emerging technologies can also help me in managing my own technology in terms of innovation and other aspects.

Technologies in my opinion are only limited to a certain span of time. Some lives for a couple of years or decades, however, a certain technology product always dies. People and society are changing which in the same context lead to changes to the demand with technologies. Hence, discoveries or innovation on these technologies should always match with the need or demand at a certain times. Constant changing of the need will also mean constant change in technology. Whether or not a certain technology will emerge depends solely on how acceptable it is to target users. A technology can only emerge in some sense if it has already been accepted by a number of users and it does inflict change on how people usually do their work. It should be recognized to this point that there is a difference between technology existing and emerging. Not all technology which exists emerges at the same time, but technology that emerges obviously exists. Hence, emerging is like a higher level of existence.