Rob Mazur

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.

This is an instant interaction, and it is something that only becomes possible with bots. There’s no new app to download, no new account to create, and, perhaps most importantly, no new user interface to learn. You just scan and chat.

Messaging and notifications. Software automation. Always-on connected devices. Machine intelligence. These elements can be combined to form a very interesting new type of application: the digital coworker — a piece of software that works along side you at your job and participates in the day to day activities of your company as an active and engaged member of the team.