Futurists predict what’s next for AI and emerging technology
Futurists predict what’s next for AI and emerging technology
Publish Date: 2026-06-05 13:15:00
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Many emerging technologies are shaping our future, and experts expect AI to be the most transformative in the near term. AI’s future evolution will happen fast, said Julie Ask, an analyst, consultant and tech futurist at Julie Ask Advisory. That means organizations, particularly tech vendors and software makers, must move quickly to capitalize on AI’s advancements or risk falling behind.
AI will continue to advance in the form of wearables, physical AI, robotics and even omniscient intelligence. While AI’s potential is vast, business leaders also need to prepare for breakthroughs from other emerging technologies.
Organizations have two choices, experts said: adapt for the future, moving beyond proof-of-concept experimentation and adopting emerging technology, or risk obsolescence.
What does the future of AI look like?
LLMs and GenAI will become “business as usual” in the next two years or so, according to Mark Bünger, co-founder and CTO of Futurist Systems, an AI and automation consulting firm and design studio. “Now…everybody is trying to figure it out, but by then everyone will have it figured out,” he said.
Bünger also said he expects LLM security to improve. He compared its evolution to that of mobile device security, which quickly advanced to enterprise-grade once organizations began to embrace them.
IT executives can expect other advancements in AI, Bünger said, such as the ability to create 3D representations of the physical environment. Self-driving vehicles, industrial devices used in healthcare and factories, and other robots will use these 3D representations to better understand their spatial surroundings, he said. And AI will make more use of network graph databases, a specialized NoSQL data store that structures, queries and analyzes data using graph theory to improve accuracy and expand its applicability to more use cases.
Ask, whose company helps its clients understand and navigate the effects of emerging technologies, said…
