This is a summary of the 2025 Gartner Strategic Technology Trends. The content was originally based on the 2023 CES and Gartner trends, reinterpreted through the lens of the 2025 Gartner Strategic Technology Trends.
The keywords for 2025 are AI-driven innovation and responsibility, expansion of computing's nervous system, and human-machine collaboration. Gartner is reportedly focusing on how technological advancement is permeating real life and business, and how organizational value and trust will be maintained going forward.
2025 Gartner Strategic Technology Trend Themes#
- AI Imperatives and Risks
- New Frontiers of Computing
- Human-Machine Synergy
Key Trends for Each Theme#
1. AI-Driven Innovation and Responsibility#
Agentic AI
- Unlike conventional AI that waits for input, Agentic AI autonomously determines goals, plans, and tool usage, then acts on them
- Examples: Vehicles automatically scheduling maintenance, AI autonomously constructing investment portfolios in finance, acting as digital colleagues handling everyday business decisions within organizations
- By 2028, it's projected that 15% of everyday business decisions will be automatically handled by Agentic AI
AI Governance Platforms & Disinformation Security
- As AI automation expands, trust, fairness, and robustness must be ensured, making governance (oversight and supervision) and disinformation defense platforms essential
2. Expanding Computing's Nervous System#
Post-Quantum Cryptography
- With quantum computing advances threatening to break existing encryption systems, post-quantum cryptography is becoming a core technology for protecting business data and customer information
Ambient Invisible Intelligence
- Sensors and small data devices embedded throughout environments unconsciously monitor and optimize daily life and business operations
- Examples: Real-time monitoring and automated data analysis in smart medical spaces, logistics supply chains, and more
Energy-Efficient & Hybrid Computing
- Minimizing carbon emissions and maximizing energy efficiency in IT has become a mandatory standard for national projects and corporate ESG
- Hybrid computing pursues both performance and efficiency through various server, cloud, and network combinations
3. Human-Machine Collaboration Innovation#
Spatial Computing
- Based on AR/MR/AI/5G, real-time fusion of the physical world with virtual information delivers immersive experiences
- Adoption of new products like Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest3 is expanding
Polyfunctional Robots
- Unlike conventional robots limited to single tasks, polyfunctional robots flexibly support various tasks within enterprises, maximizing cost efficiency
Neurological Enhancement
- Neurological enhancement technologies like brain-machine interfaces (BMI) dramatically boost individual cognitive abilities and productivity
- Neuralink and similar technologies directly read and interpret human thought, opening new frontiers in marketing, education, and workplace innovation
Implications for Business Operators (2025)#
- AI automation (Agentic AI) and data trustworthiness (governance) are becoming essential elements for every service going forward.
- Automated recommendation systems based on user behavioral data and context, along with transparent, trustworthy AI service operations, can become differentiators.
- Invisible sensors and ML technology can enable advanced features like health management and location-based schedule recommendations.
- Adoption of new technologies such as next-gen security (post-quantum cryptography), ESG (energy efficiency), and brain-machine interface-based personalization should also be considered as long-term growth strategies.
You don't need to implement every technology at once, but the strategy of clearly defining the single most relevant trend and expanding step by step becomes even more important in 2025.
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