Dell Technologies 2018 Predictions – Entering the Next Era of Human Machine Partnerships

Our research partners at The Institute for the Future ( #IFTF) recently forecasted that we’re entering the next era of #humanmachine partnership, and that between now and 2030 humans and machines will work in closer concert with each other, transforming our lives. We’ve worked with machines for centuries, but we’re about to enter an entirely new phase – characterized by even greater efficiency, unity and possibility than ever before. #Emergingtechnologies, such as #ArtificialIntelligence ( #AI), #AugmentedReality ( #AR), #VirtualReality ( #VR), and advances in #InternetofThings ( #IoT) and #cloudcomputing – made possible through exponential developments in software, analytics, and processing power – are augmenting and accelerating this direction. This is evident in our connected cars, homes, business and banking transactions already; even transforming how farmers manage their crops and cattle. Given this dizzying pace of progress, let’s take a look at what’s coming down the pike next.

www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/perspectives/dell-technologies-2018-predictions-entering-the-next-era-of-human-machine-partnerships/

Dell predicts man, machine partnership in 2018

The Senior Vice President at @DellEMC, META, Mr. @MohammedAmin, on Tuesday, said that year 2018 would witness more partnership between man and machine. Amin, in a statement in Lagos, said that the partnership would be more interwoven into peoples’ day-to-day lives. According to him, it would transform everything from the way businesses are run and the importance placed on security to how entertainment was provided. “There is need to share the impact that #ArtificialIntelligence ( #AI ), #AugmentedReality ( #AR), #VirtualReality ( #VR) advances in #InternetofThings ( #IoT) and #cloudcomputing, will have on organisations and lives digitally in 2018. “Emerging technologies, such as AI, AR, IoT and cloud computing, made possible through exponential developments in software, analytics, and processing power are augmenting and accelerating this direction. “This is evident in our connected cars, homes, businesses and banking transactions already; even transforming how farmers manage their crops and cattle,’’ he said. Amin listed some of the predictions as: AI doing the ‘thinking tasks’ at speed, embedding the IQ of things, having a deeper relationship with customers, bias check would become the next spell check, among others. He said that over the next few years, AI would change the way people spend their time acting on data, and businesses would harness AI to do data-driven “thinking tasks” for them. The Dell Official said that it would significantly reduce the time people spend scoping, debating, scenario planning, testing every new innovations, as it would reduce bottlenecks, liberate people to make more decisions and move faster. “Some theorists claim AI will replace jobs, but these new technologies may also create new ones, unleashing new opportunities for humans,’’ he said.   Amin also said that as regards embedding the IQ of Things, gargantuan strides would be taken in embedding near-instant intelligence in IoT-enhanced cities, organisations, homes, and vehicles. He added that with the cost of processing power decreasing and a connected node approaching $0, soon, we would have 100 billion connected devices, and after that a trillion. Amin also said that over the next decade, emerging technologies such as VR, AI, would help people find and act on information without interference from emotions or external prejudice, while empowering them to exercise human judgment where appropriate. “In the short-term, we will see AI applied to hiring and promotion procedures to screen for conscious and unconscious bias, while VR will increasingly be used as an interview tool to ensure opportunities are awarded on merit alone. Amin said that cloud was not a destination, and in 2018, businesses are overwhelmingly moving toward a multi-cloud approach, taking advantage of the value of all models from public to private, hosted and managed. He said that due to increasingly interwoven relationships with machines, small subtle failures could lead to mega failures. “Hence, next year will be a year of action for multinational corporations, further inspired by the onslaught of new regulations such as GDPR. He said that there was need to prioritise the implementation of cybersex-curity tools and technologies, to effectively protect data and prevent threats.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/dell-predicts-man-machine-partnership-2018/

Dell Technologies: SDN Driving ‘Next-Era’ Partnerships with Robots

Let’s be clear: robots are not going to take all the human jobs or decimate the species by 2030. But, according to a #DellTechnologies report, they will play a larger role in enterprises and society.

“Look, probably 98 percent of everything I’ve seen either in official analysts’ reports or objective reports or even movies is this doom-and-gloom scenario around the fact that machines are going to take over and humans are going to have no place,” said Gaurav Chand, Dell’s SVP of marketing.

The #DellTechnologies’ research, on the other hand, says emerging technologies, enabled by software-defined networking ( #SDN ) advances, will reshape human relationship with machines. Researchers focused on four categories of technologies for this report: #robotics, #artificialintelligence ( #AI ) and #machinelearning, #virtualreality ( #VR ) and #augmentedreality (AR), and #cloudcomputing.

Humans will be the “digital conductors” of these technologies, which will essentially serve as extensions of people, the report says. And it estimates that 85 percent of jobs in 2030 haven’t been invented yet.

Chand compares it to pre- and post-industrial revolution jobs. “We are exactly at that point, but it’s not the industrial revolution. It’s the digital revolution.”

‘Digital Revolution’

Of course, technology companies including Dell have a financial interest in pushing this digital revolution. To this end, Dell Technologies — whose brands include Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream, and VMware — regularly promotes its role in helping customers achieve “digital transformation.” This means every business is a digital business, supported by software, big data, and cloudcomputing.

So it’s no surprise that that the new report suggests digital transformation is essential to enterprises’ success in this new era of human-machine partnerships. But it’s also hard to argue that a digital revolution isn’t already underway.

“Ten years ago, you’d have a storage administrator, a server administrator, and a network administrator,” Chand said. “There was no job in existence for a converged administrator. And yet today, with software-based taking over and converged and hyperconverged, now you see this notion of a converged infrastructure administrator. This was not in existence 10 years ago.”

He also points out that it’s now software driving the car industry.

“Imagine car companies 10 years ago thinking they would essentially be software companies,” he said. “Today you see GE, Ford, a lot of incumbents born well ahead of the digital era embracing those pieces. A lot of what history has taught us is that humans don’t become irrelevant, but to be relevant they have to be transformative to learn new skills and be able to adapt to the future.”

Advanced Networking

These next-gen technologies — from 5G and VR to edge computing — require advanced networking capabilities as well.

“Imagine a world in which you now have AR and VR, delivering ultra-rich content, so the user really gets the impact,” he said. “Imagine the networking bandwidth required. Look at the world of automated vehicles and the role edge computing and networking plays in that.”

He says telcos are already doing this with network functions virtualization (NFV), but adds that open networking and white boxes will make the technology more accessible.

For enterprises, this means training employees to use emerging technologies and acquire new skills sets, Chand said, pointing to DevOps as an example.

Another critical piece: meeting customers’ expectations when it comes things like real-time delivery, and ensuring outputs from machine-learned systems are accurate — and in line with the organizations’ values and reputation. In other words, companies don’t want to create another racist AI chatbot.

Security Strategies

Reevaluating the connectedness between security and business strategies will play a central role as well. Businesses should develop risk-mitigating security strategies that both prevent attacks and also quickly respond to and resolve incidents when they occur.

“Falling victim to security breaches is no longer a technology problem, but a business problem,” the report says.

Chand suggests a two-fold security approach. “One is an internal SOC [security operations center]. But so many threats live outside a company’s walls that they also need a managed service externally, keeping them updated about what’s going on across the globe and how to address these before they even become a threat to the organization.”

Key takeaways for enterprises include start preparing now for 2030.

“Embrace digital as the future,” Chand said. “Don’t wait. Start thinking about the technological aspects but more importantly, the people and process angles today. You face the choice of transforming or literally dying.”

And then, the robots win.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/dell-technologies-sdn-driving-next-era-partnerships-robots/2017/08/

Realizing 2030: Dell Technologies Research Explores The Next Era Of Human-Machine Partnerships

ROUND ROCK, Texas, July 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- News Summary

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 partnershipsHumans will serve as digital conductors and how we conduct business, discover talent and learn will be radically different

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 #DellTechnologies 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 #artificialintelligence ( #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. #Machinelearning 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 #augmentedreality and #virtualreality. The ability to gain new knowledge will be more valuable than the k pledge itself.

https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/perspectives/rea qqlizing-2030.htm