Trend: Artificial empathy
The next step in artificial intelligence is artificial empathy. Even your emotions aren's save for the technology industry. Technology which responds on your emotions becomes a reality and even a trend.
Technology is evolving towards the softer side of mankind. Besides the developments in artificial intelligence and the ever more intelligent analyzes of human data we see technology take the step towards analysing and responding to human emotions. This development is more important than ever for the next phase in acceptance of technology by humans. Technology become able to detect and respond on human emotions. Technology will be able to show empathy and affection and thereby reduces the distinction between humans and technology. For many people, a scary or threatening development. For the technology industry 'a dream come true'.
Trend definition: technology which is able to detect feelings and emotions of people and react and respond on it.