Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025

Tracking this year's top strategic tech trends will help CIOs and IT leaders shape the future with responsible innovation.

Plan for technologies trending for 2025

Amid the challenges of navigating current social and economic disruptions and trends, future success requires CIOs and other IT leaders to look ahead. The Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2025 are the star map you can use to keep your organization forging safely into the future. Each trending technology represents powerful new tools to vanquish productivity, security and innovation obstacles  

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Use the 2025 strategic technology trends to shape the future with responsible innovation

In selecting this year’s 10 top strategic technology trends, Gartner analysts organized them across three themes: AI imperatives and risks, new frontiers of computing and human-machine synergy.

For want of space, we will restrict ourselves to the third Theme; moreover, it deals with human-machine synergy in three trends ( 8,9 and 10)

Theme No. 3: Human-machine synergy brings together the physical and digital worlds Trend

 8: Spatial computing: Digitally enhances the physical world using technologies like augmented and virtual reality to offer immersive experiences. Business benefits: Addresses consumer demand for immersive and interactive experiences in gaming, education and e-commerce; satisfies demand for sophisticated visualization tools for decision making and efficiency in healthcare, retail and manufacturing. Challenges: Head-mounted displays are expensive and unwieldy, require frequent charging, isolate users and may increase the potential for accidents; user interfaces are complex; data privacy and security are major concerns.

Trend 9: Polyfunctional robots: Robots capable of performing multiple tasks and seamlessly switching between them as required Business benefits: Improved efficiency; faster ROI; no need for architectural changes or bolt-down infrastructure means fast deployment, low risk and scalability; can substitute for or work with humans. Challenges: The industry hasn’t yet standardized on price or minimum functionality required.

Trend 10: Neurological enhancement: Improving cognitive abilities with technologies that read and decode brain activity. Business benefits: Human upskilling, safety improvements, personalized education, allowing older people to work longer, next-generation marketing.. Challenges: Initially expensive, limited battery and options for mobility and wireless connectivity; invasive and risky; UBMIs and BBMIs interface directly with the human brain, creating security challenges; ethical concerns (e.g., altering users’ perception of reality).