Executive assistants for everyone

• Autores: Hal R. Varian
• Localización: MIT Sloan management review, ISSN 1532-9194, Vol. 58, Nº 1, 2016, págs. 13-13
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the near future, everyone who has a smartphone can have a digital executive assistant. This will be made possible by the mobile cloud technology that integrates the convenience of the mobile phone with the power of cloud computing. The mobile phone interface will shift toward interactive voice communication just like communicating with a human assistant but your digital agent will be able to access and search vast amounts of information in the cloud almost instantaneously, enabling quicker and better decisions. Today, the low-cost communications and computing power available to even small enterprises is dramatically more powerful than what even the largest multinational corporations could afford 20 years ago. Organizing groups of people even small groups has always involved work, some of which has been tedious and repetitive. But tedious and repetitive tasks are what computers do best. In the next five years, we will see dramatic progress in computer-supported cooperative work.