Chances are that you have seen this video already, but for those who didn't: here's a very strong vision of where personal productivity tools might lead us a couple of years from now. It appears to be from Microsoft, though its certainly not loaded with commercials for its products; only the vision prevails.
Anyhow, one question that increasingly keeps me busy is the future of productivity (in a macro-economic sense): will robots take over human activity? can every human activity eventually be performed by machines? will automation be applied to critical decision-taking? will this worsen the income divide between those with high value jobs (those designing the robots, for instance) and low value ones (those maintaining the robots, for instance)?
Actually, the vision of Microsoft in this video shows people still working very much like the past decade, they still have to make the same decisions and working on are working on pretty much the same things, only more efficiently. This might be one potential scenario -even a likely one in my eyes- but certainly not the only one... It's a nice one nevertheless:
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