ENDING THE WORKPLACE:

"The new sharing economy and the way millennials think, have combined to create a new collaborate work culture. We're now working on the same files together and messaging each other all in one place. It's more about real-time teamwork and transparency than individual effort," [Google for Work president Amit Singh ] said. [...]

How is the way we work going to change in the next five years?

Singh predicts that AI-based assistants will play a big role in increasing human productivity:

We've been thinking a lot about the the increasing importance of mobility at work. We're currently taking traditional data and tools and unlocking them from your desk. But creating an intelligent assistant that goes where you do and helps you out by surfacing data when you need it, in context, cognitive in real-time -- I believe that's the future.

The search giant acquired machine learning firm DeepMind last year to boost its AI efforts, so it'll be interesting to see how Google follows up on Singh's vision.

Mathrubootham articulated it quite simply: "90 percent of the world consumes while only 10 percent creates. Consumption of content has moved steadily into the cloud and onto mobile devices, while the tools for creation remain tied to desktops. That's all going to move away from traditional computing devices to more personal, portable solutions by 2020."

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