However, the biggest uncertainty regarding tech’s wellbeing in 2019 is not how the tech producers themselves will fare. One forecast suggests that AI and faster connectivity could unlock almost $400 billion of consumer spending on consumer tech in 2019, up by 4% from 2018. Two other data points critically determine why the users of technology will ultimately decide the future of digital technologies. Specifically, hope that tech will be able to sustain medium-term economic growth even if business spending will moderately slow in 2019. The producers of tech almost always make a bigger splash in the news than its users and consumers.

Source: Forbes March 06, 2019 20:37 UTC