A report from Dell Technologies seeks to forecast the impact of technology over the next couple of decades. Realizing 2030 takes a comprehensive look at what the future will hold by analysing what is needed to succeed on the path to digital transformation and how emerging technologies will unfold.
Created with The Institute of the Future, the report also has some interesting predictions about how the relationships between humans and technology will develop. Because of the emergence of machine learning a number of industry experts have predicted a new era for ‘human-machine partnerships’ – with humans offloading more work to machines.
“This study looks 10 to 15 years ahead at the way technology is going to evolve and what it really means for our customers and our company,” said Shams Hasan, Infrastructure Solutions Manager for Middle East, Turkey, and Africa, Dell EMC. “Of course, the whole point of this was to really better understand what’s happening 10 years down the road so that we can prepare for it today.
“The study highlights so many different trends beyond just what is happening with AI, AR, VR, and so forth. It paves a road map of what is going to happen with humans. In fact, we call it is ‘human-machine partnerships’. That is what we believe is going to happen to us in terms of our very nature of what a person means.The study highlights how the notion of what a person is is going to change.”
The report looks at what will happen to humans with the development of ever more sophisticated technology at their disposal. “What will happen is that human beings are going to become what we call digital conductors,” said Hasan. “We believe that AI and robotics is actually going to be a supplement to us rather than taking over crucial roles. In today’s really fast-paced developing environment everything has to be faster, more agile, more immediately delivered, so instead of us chasing work, work will start to chase us.”
The report can be downloaded here.
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