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- More than 20 global experts forecast how emerging technologies
will reshape society and work by 2030
- Emerging technologies will recast human relationship with
machines – creating deeper, more immersive partnerships
- Humans will serve as digital conductors and how we conduct
business, discover talent and learn will be radically
different
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In 2030 every organization 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 today. The research, led by
the Institute for the Future (IFTF) alongside 20 technology,
academic and business experts from across the globe, looks at how
emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics,
virtual reality, augmented reality and cloud computing, will
transform our lives and how we work over the next decade. 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.
The report forecasts that emerging technologies, supported by
massive advancements in software, big data and processing power,
will reshape lives. Society will enter a new phase in its
relationship with machines, which will be characterized by:
- 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
Dell Technologies commissioned the study to help companies
navigate an uncertain world and prepare for the future. Today,
digital disruption is ruthlessly redrawing industries. For the
first time in modern history, global leaders can't predict how
their industry will fare further down the line. According to Dell's
Digital Transformation Index, 52 percent of senior decision makers
across 16 countries have experienced significant disruption to
their industries as a result of digital technologies. And nearly
one in two businesses believe there's a possibility their company
will become obsolete within the next three to five years.
"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 organizations 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."
Other report highlights include:
- In 2030 humans' reliance on technology will evolve into a true
partnership with humans, bringing skills such as creativity,
passion and an entrepreneurial mindset. This will align with the
machines' ability to bring speed, automation and efficiencies, and
the resulting productivity will allow for new opportunities within
industries and roles.
- By 2030 personalized, 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 organizations
will pursue the best talent for discrete tasks.
- An estimated 85 percent of jobs in 2030 haven't been invented
yet. The pace of change will be so rapid that people will learn
"in-the-moment" using new technologies such as augmented reality
and virtual reality. The ability to gain new knowledge will be more
valuable than the knowledge itself.
About Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that provides
the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their
digital future, transform IT and protect their most important
asset, information. The company services customers of all sizes –
ranging from 98 percent of the Fortune 500 to individual consumers
– with the industry's broadest and most innovative portfolio from
edge to core to cloud. Dell Technologies family consists of the
following brands: Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks,
Virtustream and VMware.
About Institute for the Future
Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent, nonprofit
501(c)(3) strategic research and educational organization
celebrating nearly 50 years of forecasting experience. The core of
our work is identifying emerging trends and discontinuities that
will transform global society and the global marketplace. Our
research generates the foresight needed to create insights that
lead to action and spans a broad territory of deeply transformative
futures, from health and health care to technology, the workplace,
learning, and human identity. As an educational organization, IFTF
strives to comply with fair-use standards and publish only
materials in the public domain under the Creative Commons 4.0
International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The Institute for the
Future is based in Palo Alto,
California. (www.iftf.org)
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