The document outlines the top five emerging technology trends for 2021, including AI-as-a-service, 5G technology, blockchain, computer vision, and extended reality (XR). AI will enhance customer experience despite high costs; 5G will improve mobile connectivity and efficiency; blockchain ensures secure transactions and data management; computer vision will transform various applications including surveillance and autonomous vehicles; and XR will create immersive environments through VR, AR, and MR technologies. These trends highlight the potential for transformative impacts across industries.

1. Top 5 Emerging Technology Trends for 2021
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2. 1. AI-as-a-service
AI is a highly evolving technology that provides companies with
engineering advances. Any company can use artificial intelligence to
improve customer experience and streamline its business practices.
In 2021, even as people become more familiar with operating
systems that combine AI, the development and deployment of AI-
based systems will remain an expensive option for most
organizations.
This allows service providers to continue many AI applications that
enable businesses to feed on the data and pay for algorithms or
computational services to recruit IT consulting companies.

3. 2. 5G Tech
With fast download and upload speeds and general seamless use, the
mobile data network of the 5th century attracted everyone’s attention.
The 5G transition is supposed to be the next standard for 2021 in the
mobile industry and architecture, after seeing a welcome response in the
USA and China with its expensive and remote launches in 2019.
This provides a significant loading speed and streaming time for
smartphones and makes mobile devices efficient for heavy tasks on-the-
go. This fast and stable mobile technology, previously limited to a home or
office’s physical limits, improves bandwidth and ensures substantial data
processing, adding too many IoT and smart gadgets’ capabilities shortly.
Around 2500 satellites have been deployed in the SpaceX proposals to
make this feasible with Starlink Broadband this year.

4. 3. Blockchain
Blockchain is one of the very few technological advancements that create
a mood for its breakthrough results. For logging transactions and keeping
the data safe and secure by encrypting and decentralizing it
simultaneously, it is a kind of digital diary. This innovative technology will
make real changes with the aid of stalwarts from previous year’s leaders
such as FedEx, Mastercard, IBM, and others, revolutionizing standards for
smaller competitors.
Ultimately, the thorough implementation of blockchain with AI, Big Data,
machine learning, and many other fields will address many issues with
mapping large data volumes. Industries such as electronic commerce, the
supply chain, or even government agencies will simultaneously profit from
the innovations this technology searches for.

5. 4. Computer Vision
When we progress into 2021, we can see apps and innovations equipped
with Machine Vision designed for an increasing variety of applications. In
particular, how autonomous vehicles visit and manage the risk is
significant. Computer vision cameras may be used by production lines to
monitor defective items or equipment faults. Surveillance cameras can
alert us to something out of the ordinary, without the need for 24/7
monitoring.
Computer vision also allows for face recognition, which we will learn a
great deal about in 2021. We have already seen the technology’s
usefulness in handling our smartphones’ access in Apple’s Face and how
Dubai Airport enables a smooth customer journey. As use cases increase in
2021, further debates will be held on limiting the use of this technology. It
will erode anonymity and allow state laws to keep a close eye on people,
hindering their privacy.

6. 5. Extended Reality
Extended Reality Extended Reality (XR) is an all-embracing term with
many new and emerging technologies used to create more realistic
immersive environments. In particular, it refers to immersive, enhanced,
and mixed reality.
Virtual reality (VR) gives you a fully digital and immersive experience with
headsets that blend the real world into a computer-generated world.
Increased Reality (AR) overlays digital objects into the real world through
smartphones or displays (think Snapchat filters). Mixed reality (MR) is an
extension of AR, meaning that users can interact with digital objects in
real life (consider playing a holographic piano that you have placed into
your room via an AR headset).