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The year 2021 witnessed many technological changes between negative and positive;Most of them are associated with the repercussions of the new Corona virus crisis, years of unrestricted control of technology giants, on top of which is the sharp rise in digital currency prices, the semiconductor crisis, and the shift towards electric cars.
Among the most prominent technological events that he witnessed in 2021, the price of the bitcoin currency reached its highest level-for the second time since the previous year-exceeding more than 65,000 USD in February, April and November 2021. The reason for the rise is due to the announcement of Tesla company.On digital currencies worth $ 1.5 billion in addition to the first public subscription of the largest encrypted currency exchange in the United States.However, the world's most famous cryptocurrency has suffered a noticeable correction in April after speculation about government organization.
In this context, Al -Salvador announced in September the digital currency "Bitcoin" is an official currency with the dollar;To become the first country to make this decision.On the other hand, China has announced the ban on digital currencies and platforms it is circulating, in preparation for launching its own copy of the central currency.
The year also witnessed a revolution in the shift towards electric cars, with the announcement of the Chinese smartphone giant "Xiaomi" will build a factory that can produce 300,000 electric cars annually.The German automotive company "Volkswagen", German Volkswagen, announced that 35 billion euros pumped into electric cars in order to become the largest electric car manufacturing company in the world by 2025.
The market value of "Tesla" electric cars has also reached more than one trillion dollars for the first time, in October, after a deal with the giant "Hurt" to sell 100,000 electric cars.
And on the global deficiency crisis in electronic chips (semiconductors) that started at the end of 2020, it continued in 2021 influential in more than 169 sectors and lines for consumers, including cars, graphics cards, video game control units, etc.Supply.
The largest part of this crisis is attributed to the "Snow Ball", the Cofide-19 epidemic, while other potential causes include the trade war between China and the United States and the production of production in Taiwan in 2021. In addition, auto manufacturers worldwide expected a decreaseIn the request at the beginning of the epidemic.As a result, companies have chosen to order a number of semiconductors to reduce the costs of inventory during the closing period.
But to treat this crisis, a number of companies went to invest in the production of semiconductors.On top of it, the Japanese "Sony" group and the "Taiwan Conduct Manufacturing Ltd." - the largest chip producer - who announced the construction of a joint electronic chips factory in Japan, with a total investment of $ 7.15 billion.
The factory is expected to produce semiconductors for cars, camera photo sensors and other products that have been damaged by international semiconductor (semiconductors), and operating is likely to start by 2024.
In an attempt to restore some control of the technology market, some governments moved to curb the monopoly of technology giants;US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Line launched the "Council of Trade and Technology between the United States and Europe" at the beginning of 2021;With the aim of "coordinating the curricula for global trade, economic and technical issues, and exchanging information on our curricula for the technology platform's curricula."
In adopting a more uniform approach to limit the market power of major technology companies, such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, the regulatory and regulatory authorities from the United States and Europe announced a package of joint measures during the first meeting of the Council of Commerce and Technology, on September 29.
European countries also continued to adopt strict measures against commercial practices of technology giants, and in November, countries agreed on their joint position on two historical legislation that could put unprecedented control over major technology companies.
In this context, the Italian Anti -Monopolist Control Authority imposed fines of 40 million euros on Apple and Google together, in two separate decisions in the same week of November.
In the same month, the Market Regulatory Authority in China announced the imposition of a fine of 78 thousand dollars on giant technological companies, including Ali Baba and Paido - the Chinese theorist of Google - for its failure to declare 43 transactions dating back to the authorities of the authorities, saying that they violated the anti -monopoly legislation.China tightens its grip on Internet platforms, and reflected the non -interference approach in the past, explaining that the goal is to avoid the risk of misusing market force to strangle competition, misuse of consumer data and violate consumer rights.
In another evidence of the sudden changes that the public brought to the technological scene, Google lost, in December, as its location as the highest popular scope in the world in favor of the Tech Talk application, according to the general review report of "Cloud Flair" on the ranges that win the largest number of visits each year.
In the same month, the company "Blue Orige", owned by the billionaire owner, "Amazon" Jeff Bizos, announced the launch of its first space crew consisting of 6 people in preparation for launching its first tourist journey in space on its New Shenberd's ship, which will represent a milestone in a competition to enter the eraPrivate commercial space trips.The company sold tickets worth $ 100 million.
In October, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that the company's name was changed to Mita, against the backdrop of a series of scandals that included the accusation of a former employee of the company of ignoring the results of the investigations that its products and policies can harm users, and provide documents to the media institutions and the American Congress.
The name "Meta" is based on metaphors, which is an online space for three -dimensional experimental worlds, as the new boundaries where people can communicate, work and shop, as is the case in the real world, and the entities take over the lands where these activities flourish and generate money.The encrypted currency trading platform "Gray Skil" is estimated that the size of the "metaphors" economy will reach in the near future towards a trillion dollars.
Among the most prominent technological incidents witnessed in 2021, the social network "Facebook", Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger platforms, and even the company's internal communication system "Work Place", stopped working suddenly for 6 hours;This caused the service to be cut off from millions of people across, and losses in the global economy exceeding 100 million dollars per hour.
In May, the attacks of malicious ransom programs (Ransomaire) have sparked extensively unprecedented attention;After the collection of ransom software called "Dark Side" closed the colonial pipeline files, which operate 5500 miles of gasoline and fuel tubes that extend between Houston and New York.The company soon paid more than $ 4 million in Bitcoin to recover the stolen data, but the turmoil caused temporary chaos in fuel stations on the eastern coast of the United States.
The ransom programs achieved a new record in 2021 with more than 500 million attacks, according to the Cyber Security Company "Sonic Wall".
The ransom programs are harmful programs that kidnap the company's computer files by encrypting them.Then criminals ask for money to restore access to it. In April, the South Korean company, LG, announced in an official statement in April, officially withdrawing from the smart phone market and completely stopping its production, to focus its resources in the areas of growth such as manufacturing electric car components and home appliancesSmart.
In an early experience with one of the widespread augmented reality forms, "beauty filters" -the applications that allow people, often young girls, smooth their skin, relieve their noses and enlarge their eyes in digital images.Cosmetic applications are available on Tek Tok, Snapchat, etc., and are used by millions, in what some considered a worrying start for metaphors.
Finally, some leading technological trends are expected to continue from 2021 for the new year, foremost of which is cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and fifth -generation networks.
According to Tomson, veteran technology analyst, the most accepted candidates to dominate the future of the future are encryption- in the sense of the technology of the series "Blockchain"- and quantum account.
Thompson warns that "a time dominated by these two techniques will be an embodiment of a confusing contradiction, as our current encryption tools depend on creating keys that traditional computers may take millions of years to solve them. But quantum computers will solve them in Nanoghania. In this case, we may finally have to admit that we areAs human beings, smarter than to know our interest. "
