[A Sip of a Book] IT Trends 2023

Some sentences encapsulate the entire content of the book itself, while others instantly reach the reader's heart and create a point of contact with the book. We excerpt and introduce such meaningful sentences from the book. - Editor's note

Over the past 20 years, this book covers the changes in another world connected to the internet, from PCs and smartphones to TVs, home appliances, and automobiles, and explains the era of the web, mobile, cloud, and artificial intelligence that resulted. The author states, “In the future, a virtual economy as a new third world will open through metaverse and blockchain-based tokens, and the ecosystem it aims for is called Web3. Through this book, I have explored the changes and innovations surrounding Web3, a new paradigm that will shape the internet over the next 10 years, and forecasted the future of internet business.”

In the process of advancing the Internet of Things, it is essential for artificial intelligence to connect these objects and manage them automatically. In this process, manufacturers who make each object cannot independently create AI, and even if they do, AI made separately will operate individually, resulting in inconsistent user experiences and inconvenience. Therefore, an integrated AI platform that can connect, operate, and manage these objects as one is necessary. From Chapter 1

The electric vehicle market will gradually become an opportunity to digitally innovate existing fossil fuel-based automobiles. The key point is not that the energy source is electricity, but rather that it is a smart car connected to the internet along with the electrification of the vehicle’s components. Just as the transition from feature phones to smartphones created a massive mobile-based ecosystem, smart cars will bring innovation to mobility services and create new business opportunities. Through the competitive landscape of various companies in the electric vehicle market, this chapter forecasts the business innovations that future smart cars will bring. From Chapter 1

The next decade requires a new way of using the internet, that is, a better user interface. We must break away from the existing habit of checking everything one by one by looking at the screen and using a mouse or finger touch. The answer can be found in AI and the metaverse. AI, now established as a common technology, and the metaverse, recognized as a future technology, are expected to bring new changes to computer and internet usage interfaces. The first generation of AI assistants failed to become mainstream and only formed a niche market. They were limited to voice-only internet services without a screen, providing limited information and only repeating what users had used before because they were invisible. They only handled simple tasks like playing music, setting alarms, checking weather and news, and calendar confirmation, without attempting to use more diverse services. From Chapter 1

IT Trends 2023 | Written by Kim Ji-hyun | Creta | 320 pages | 18,000 KRW