Let’s talk about trends, part one   It has reached that time of the year when I write about the possible digital trends of 2018. It is always fun to talk about the future, and when the future arrives, to look back and see if my predictions came true. Last year I said Augmented…

Industry 4.0 and beyond For some time now, the term Industry 4.0 has been discussed widely in the Turkish business community. For some time now, the term Industry 4.0 has been discussed widely in the Turkish business community. class="cf"> Siemens’s vice president Ali Rıza Ersoy was the leader in putting the concept in businesspeople’s…

The year of artificial intelligence   This is the second and the last part of the miniseries I write ahead of 2018. Since any article about predictions will not be completed without Gartner Trends Outlook, today I will write mainly about Gartner Top 10 strategic Technology Trends for 2018. Kasey Panetta writes in…

Will 2018 be the year of China?   We began to talk about China around 40 years ago as a very cheap production hub. Many goods that people around the world used were being produced in China. A few decades later China began to invest in people and started to fund global brands.…

Do we need crazy projects? “Turkey on Jan. 15 unveiled the ‘most appropriate’ route for the planned Canal Istanbul project, an artificial sea-level waterway that would run parallel to the Bosphorus connecting the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea,” Hürriyet Daily News has recently reported.class="cf"> “The Küçükçekmece-Sazlıdere-Durusu corridor has been chosen as the…

The space race Space is the final frontier and there is a race for it. Many countries are trying to increase their capacity to reach for the stars. The latest move has come from India. Almost a year ago in February 2017, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) had launched 104 satellites…

Can gaming be as big as automotive industry for Turkey? When talking about trends in the past I have always allowed room for gaming. By now, everyone realizes that gaming is serious business. It has become mainstream. From our early childhood days to our final days as an adult we play games.…

God willing, bitcoin will bring us the championship We Turks are usually not firsts in adopting new technologies; we actually lag behind by a few months, sometimes years, in the latest trends in the U.S., South Korea or Japan. I am not talking about cellphones of course; that’s a very different topic.class="cf"> But…

Let’s start digitalization from homes The Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜBİSAD) released a report about Turkey’s digital transition yesterday. Important names like Serdar Urçar and Devrim Sönmez presented the findings together with three academia representatives. I will delve into the details of the report next week. But I realized that when…

Digital transformation One of the buzz concepts of recent years is “digital transformation.” It goes hand in hand with Industry 4.0. Everybody is talking about it but few have embarked on a really transformative journey. Most people and companies are still trying to figure out what to digitize and when. My…