About this time of year, all kinds of companies in a variety of sectors engage in the crystal-ball gazing tradition of making predictions for the future. But along came 2020, and amazingly, even in a year like no one could have imagined, some of last year’s predictions were still spot on, except for one huge exception: timing.

Predictions about digital and cloud transformation, 5G, cybersecurity, mobile banking, biometrics and more are all there in black and white from 2019 (and sometimes even before), but what no one predicted was the unprecedented hyper speed at which these technologies  came at us. The pandemic turbo charged the entire technology engine with the seismic and sudden shift to a remote and mobile world.