Despite COVID-driven tech investment, many manufacturers will fail at digital transformation through 2022. COVID has accelerated many manufacturer’s investments in technology such as robotics, automation, augmented reality/virtual reality ( AR/VR), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), and advanced analytics much more than predicted at the beginning of 2020. Despite this rush to technology…
Today’s pandemic is a humanitarian and economic disaster but if this were 2005, the economic ruin would be much worse. This summer, despite the pandemic, tens of millions of white-collar workers were not laid off. Their jobs were saved by broadband access, Bring Your Own (BYO) and major executive attitude changes. In the face of…
Starting in 2021, pandemic abandoned office space will be repurposed to indoor farming and food production. The pandemic has had a significant impact on commercial building usage. Shuttered businesses, reduced workforces, working from home have emptied office spaces, especially in cities. It’s very likely that much of that space will not be refilled when the…
Had the pandemic struck in 2005, all those white-collar workers who rapidly transitioned in the early spring of 2020 from working in offices to working from home would have been let go, furloughed, or fired.
Harsh criticisms of the scientific foundations of AI are accumulating and the trend sped up steeply in 2020. This may delay AI deployment by some years but it will do the technology (and you) well.
