The Human-Machine Partnerships will revolutionise business

By Oscar Michel, Masters in Journalism,DCU.

Emerging technologies will change human relationships with machines creating deeper and more immersive partnerships.

In 2030 every organisation will be a technology organization and as such businesses need to start thinking today about how to future-proof their infrastructure and workforce, according to a report published by Dell Technologies the 13th of July. The report, titled ‘The Next Era of Human-Machine Partnerships’ also offers insight on how consumers and businesses can prepare for a society in flux.

20 technology, academic and business experts alongside with the Institute for the future (IFTF) forecast how emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality, augmented reality and cloud couputing will reshape society and work by 2030.

Society will enter a new era regarding to its relationships with machines, it will lead to:

• Even greater efficiency and possibility than ever before, helping humans transcend our limitations
• Humans as “digital conductors” in which technology will work as an extension of people, helping to better direct and manage daily activities
• Work chasing people, in which by using advanced data-driven matchmaking technologies, organizations can find and employ talent from across the world
• People learning “in the moment,” as the pace of change will be so rapid that new industries will be created and new skills will be required to survive.

“Never before has the industry experienced so much disruption. The pace of change is very real, and we’re now in a do-or-die landscape. To leap ahead in the era of human-machine partnerships, every business will need to be a digital business, with software at its core,” said Jeremy Burton, chief marketing officer, Dell. “But organisations will need to move fast and build capacity in their machines, ready their infrastructure and enable their workforce in order to power this change.”

“We’ve been exposed to two extreme perspectives about machines and the future: the anxiety-driven issue of technological unemployment or the over optimistic view that technology will cure all our social and environmental ills,” said Rachel Maguire, research director, Institute for the Future. “Instead we need to focus on what the new relationship between technology and people could look like and how we can prepare accordingly. If we engage in the hard work of empowering human-machine partnerships to succeed, their impact on society will enrich us all.”

By 2030 personalised, integrated artificial intelligence (AI) assistants will go well beyond what assistants can do now. They’ll take care of us in predictive and automated ways.

Technology won’t necessarily replace workers, but the process of finding work will change. Work will cease to be a place but a series of tasks. Machine learning technologies will make individuals’ skills and competencies searchable, and organisations will pursue the best talent for discrete tasks.

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