Ryan Rogers

I don’t need to know about good restaurants in my neighborhood. I don’t need to know how to cook carne asada for my friends. I don’t even need to have feelings. I just want to code all day.

These developments open up new and giant opportunities for consumers, developers, and businesses. Chat apps will come to be thought of as the new browsers; bots will be the new websites. This is the beginning of a new internet.

It felt a bit like the first time I tapped a button and an Uber car appeared three minutes later–the magic of what many in the tech industry call online-to-offline, the ability to order physical products or services from an app. Except now you don’t even need a new app–you can just chat your way to a richer life.