The concept of new technologies is quite broad, although we could summarise it as recent innovations that are transforming society, characterised by rapid evolution and the ability not only to integrate but also to revolutionise numerous sectors.
These technologies are driving a new era precisely because of their evolution and pace, which are having a significant impact on numerous fields of society, such as healthcare, industry and education, changing social, economic and industrial models.
Examples of new technologies
Although we could have chosen numerous examples of new technologies, we are going to focus on five of the most disruptive and/or relevant ones.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence refers to the ability of machines to imitate how humans learn or reason, performing tasks based on the information available to them, just as a person would.
We are facing a technology that is advancing in various sectors such as healthcare, business and transport, but which nevertheless faces a number of challenges from various perspectives, including practical, ethical and technical.
AI is a new technology that also has different types, such as generative AI, a branch designed to create new content ranging from text and audio to images and videos, which works by training deep learning models with massive data sets.
Blockchain
Blockchain technology can be defined as a system for storing information in blocks, linked together and related through a digital fingerprint, so that if a piece of data is modified in any block in the chain, that fingerprint would no longer be related to the rest of the blocks, as explained in a recent article on our website about blockchain and its characteristics.
This technology was born on 31 October 2008 with Bitcoin, as this was the first application to define and use it.
Thanks to its authentication, tracking and traceability capabilities, blockchain offers the possibility of transmitting information efficiently and quickly, knowing that it cannot be manipulated or deleted.
Quantum computing
Quantum computing is a technology dedicated to solving problems that neither computers nor supercomputers are capable of solving. It is a branch of computer science based on entanglement, decoherence and superposition that uses quantum mechanics to overcome the limitations of classical computing.
This technology represents a fundamental advance in the way information is processed and is based on quantum bits or qubits, bits that can be in several states at once (hence the superposition), which enables an exponential multiplication of processing capacity.
This technology is also highly relevant today, as 2025 is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, a designation that highlights the importance of both quantum science and technology for economic progress and potential applications that “could meet basic needs such as food, healthcare (…) clean water and energy, and support climate action”.
Cybersecurity
When asked what cybersecurity is and why it is important, it could be defined as the area of technology that fights against threats both inside and outside organisations, using strategies and/or tools that seek to protect computer systems or the networks that connect them.
Preventing and repelling these potential attacks are the main functions of cybersecurity, with the aim of avoiding the damage they can cause to companies from different perspectives, such as economic, data or reputational.
Phishing, cyber scams and credential theft are some of the most common cyber threats, making cybersecurity not just important but essential. Cybersecurity also faces different challenges, such as advances in artificial intelligence, the IoT and quantum computing, some of the new technologies that are revolutionising the world and which are discussed in this article.
Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the technology that connects objects and devices so that they can share and exchange data thanks to being linked together via mobile networks.
This streamlines, improves and automates processes with an impact, like other new technologies, in numerous sectors, such as Industry 4.0, digital health and connected mobility.
