Some say that it’s a “paradigm shift,” but whatever you want to call it, chatbots and messaging are redefining the communications bundle. Both messaging and bots have existed for years. The first chatbot, Eliza, is credited to Joseph Weizenbaum in…
More than half of the world’s population lives in a city. As these urban environments continue to grow, the need for more efficient ways to route people, traffic, data, and communications increases. The smart city concept uses technology to create…
The promise and potential of a smartwatch is to be an extension of all the tech devices we rely on everyday for business and personal use. For some, a turn of the wrist to tell the time instead of digging…
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season has been one of the worst in years and it now ranks in the top 10 most active seasons due the destructive stretch of long-lasting storms. The power goes out, people lose access to running…
You need at least two hands to count the number of the most popular messaging apps currently available and used regularly. And that’s if we aren’t including social media, email, phone calls, and SMS. Are we messaged-out? Hardly. The amount…
For all the reasons that talking on the phone is actually better than texting, one of them stands out as a definitive downside in today’s society. A phone call requires your full attention. It may not be possible to completely…
In the future, your bot will talk to other bots. Ultimately, the idea behind such conversations is to make you more productive. If you can imagine being more engaged at work instead of being bogged down by drudgery, then you…
Amazon is huge. We could spend the rest of this article talking about everything that Amazon has their hands in and we’d only scratching the surface when we mention their well-known subsidiaries like Zappos and Whole Foods, branded devices like…
If you don’t read NextDraft, “The day’s most fascinating news from Dave Pell,” you should. In fact, the title of this post is ripped directly from one of his daily newsletters right after the Equifax story broke. Pell cleverly quipped,…
Millennials Text, Others Talk By 2020 the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there could be up to five generations working side by side in the same workplace. If you’ve paid any attention to how younger generations use their phones,…
