As technology develops it can have a financial implication both in terms of opportunities in certain sectors and the removal of opportunities in the ones they’re replacing. It therefore pays to keep a close eye on the emerging technologies that could potentially impact your business; for better or worse. We take a look at some of the trends you should be paying attention to in 2016 and beyond.

It's Back To The Future Day! For non-cinephiles, this is the date when a teenage Marty McFly traveled to the far-flung "future" of 21 October, 2015 in a Delorean time machine. (The film came out in 1989, y'see.) If you plan on socialising today, this movie is almost sure to come up, along with a discussion of all the tech predictions it got right. Bluff your way through with this handy primer.

John Underkoffle is the CEO of Oblong Technologies; a telecollaboration company specialising in non-traditional user interfaces (UIs). He was also the brains behind the "spatial operating environment" in the science fiction film Minority Report. Since then, Underkoffle has turned his movie magic into a commercial reality for conference room collaboration. In the very near future, he believes everyone will be touching the air like Tom Cruise to get stuff done in the office. Here is his ethos.