Second Machine Age

Changing Digital Technologies

Recent changes in digital technologies are combining a range of amazing innovations that are rapidly being proven in real-world situations bringing science fiction future predictions into reality faster than we may realize. While some of these may not stretch as far into the waste industry, renowned for its slow adoption of technology (compared to neighboring industries such as couriers and parcel pickup-delivery), these emerging technologies could herald massive changes in business operations processes as the start of a new machine age has potential for a far bigger impact than the original industrial revolution:

• Exponential Digital Transformation of
  businesses
• Automated self-driving vehicles
• Artificial Intelligence, and Next-generation robots
• Advances in Mapping & GPS technologies
• The Internet of Things (IoT) and an
  explosion in connectivity (sensor
  technology and data capture devices
  connected by the internet and other
  networks)