The speed of technological innovations is increasing rapidly. Entrepreneurs with the right innovations at the right time are becoming millionaires and billionaires overnight. A few decades ago, it was difficult to believe futurists' predictions on what technology would be able to do. Today, things have changed - we listen to futurists in the hope of being better prepared for what is coming. Some listen with excitement and anticipation, while others listen with fear and anxiety. It is quite strange that we would fear something that we ourselves have created. But we do. The scariest element tends to be that technology will make humans irrelevant and redundant in the workplace. Technological inventions continue to be smarter and faster at doing the jobs we employ humans to do. But the innovations are going beyond just technical and intellectual abilities. Just this week, I discovered an app that can read human emotions based on the tone of your voice. I learnt of human-like robots that...
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