What Is The Future of Digital Marketing?

We already covered A.I. above.

But the development AI will overlap with the field of robotics and change life for us together.

Computer systems and robots will be able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as decision-making, visual perception, speech recognition and language translation. Artificial intelligence is an exciting field that comes with a touch of trepidation – especially for fans of the movie franchise The Terminator.

Robotics technology is advancing rapidly and is expected to do the majority of manual labor tasks in the near-future that are now done by people. When AI and robotics are integrated, our world will never be the same again. This market is a game-changer.

This one is going to be absolutely huge and the market created may have the biggest impact on the world of digital marketing.

Internet of Things is a network of physical objects that are connected to the internet. These objects such as sensors, circuits, smartphones, wearables and electronics will transmit data via “the internet” to the cloud providing a “smarter” service or experience for the user. As an example, the streetlight in front of your house, when integrated to the IOT, will send a message to your city’s maintenance department alerting it when it’s bulb burns out.

This kind of “smart technology” is already being used and will become prevalent in the next decade.

More than just for gaming, virtual reality is the computer technology that uses headsets, sometimes in combination with physical spaces or multi-projected environments, to generate realistic images, sounds and other sensations that simulates a user’s physical presence in a virtual or imaginary environment. A person using virtual reality equipment is able to “look around” the artificial world as if he or she was actually there.

The future of virtual reality will include not only gaming but filmmaking, exploring, and other entertainment-related content. Plus metaverse marketing.

Yes, I know that the drone market is already alive and well online. The drones being sold today are mostly for recreational purposes. What I’m referring to specifically here are commercial drone applications, which are yet to take off (pun intended) in the mainstream of things.

Commercial drones will not only be used for product deliveries but for a myriad of other applications including construction, real estate, ranching, etc. Also search and rescue. Drones are perfect for finding lost hikers in the wilderness where it’s difficult and time consuming for rescuers to find them. It can also carry a rescue ‘kit’ with food, water, first aid supplies and a radio that can help lost hikers survive until help arrives. 

You may not have heard of Genomics yet but you will. Genomics is the study of genes, their functions and related techniques. Future applications may make it possible to alter our own DNA to upgrade our genetic code and actually ‘fix’ problems such as Type 1 diabetes. It’s a controversial field for sure but one to keep an eye on.

Future affiliate opportunities in genomics are primarily speculative at this point. But the possibilities in such a vast field of health-related topics is exciting. 

While the Trump administration recently curtailed the industry here in the United States, it is likely to rebound quickly in the near future. Wind and solar power, rain, tides, waves and geothermal heat applications will likely explode in the next ten to twenty years.

Renewable energy sources provide energy in four primary areas:

1. Air & water cooling and heating (including HVAC supplies)
2. Electricity generation
3. Off-grid energy
4. Transportation

Like the drone market, 3D printing is already is alive and well, but has yet to go completely mainstream. When it does, it could provide some amazing opportunities for ecommerce. Definitely a vertical market to watch as new applications are created.

Voice over Internet Protocol is a technology that allows you to make voice calls using a broadband Internet connection rather than analog phone line. VoIP is cost efficient, easy to use and and requires little technical skill to operate. VoIP technology is still evolving and opening up new applications.

The wireless revolution is already upon us but will accelerate when the large broadband wireless players build new improved infrastructure that will move us into the Internet of Things era. Further, so called “mesh networks” will connect local devices to one another in special grids that will open the floodgates for new wireless technology.

I predict in the next 10 years many of us will be shuttling around in self-driving cars. Combined with the internet of things, I believe there will be thousands of digital opportunities spawned by this world-changing technology.

Wearable technology is alive and well but like drones and 3D printing, is still in it’s genesis. Wearable tech is a perfect example of the Internet Of Things (discussed above) where objects exchange data though the internet without any human intervention.

There will likely be some massive advances in wearable tech that will continue to rock our world.

While still in it’s genesis, mobile payment technology is rapidly emerging. Soon you will be able to walk into a store, grab what you need, and your account will be charged accordingly. This model already exists in very limited test markets.

This will completely revolutionize the entire shopping process and open up numerous opportunities, including sim-only deals.