More talkative digital assistants, self-parking cars, wider use of the bitcoin infrastructure and increasingly serious cyberassaults will be among the technology trends of the coming year, experts say. They predict:More blockchainThe infrastructure behind bitcoin consists of a digital ledger hosted across a network of computers that can mutually verify transactions. “Blockchains” enable efficient, secure real-time updating of information and can be used far more widely than for cryptocurrencies. There will be more pilot schemes here, and possibly the creation of a co-ordinating body for UK blockchain initiatives. Bitcoin wobbling, or worseExperts including the Nobel prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Shiller have predicted that…

Source: The Times December 28, 2017 00:00 UTC