The Next New Thing

New Media has definitely changed our lives drastically over the years. In the past, physical paper copies of personal, government, medical or business were how we kept track of everything. Corporations, Hospitals, Entrepreneurs, Government agencies had enormous records departments were they stored there important data. This set up used up a lot of precious real estate plus staffing that was needed to maintain and manage the documents. There were definitely a lot of costs involved when you factor that all in. In this new age of technology, most of these physical can now be pulled up digitally  if it was scanned or if a data entry process was used in the first place. By using word searches or another type of search feature, you can pull up many items in seconds as opposed to the long amount of time it would most likely take manually. There are some places that are more organized than others but having everything digital makes it much easier and quicker to mine data. This allows people to multitask better. It helps people become more efficient and productive.

 

In the same vein of multitasking, an example of New Media that can do some wonders is having a “smart” virtual assistant. It can be an online secretary that will use artificial intelligence to help make decisions (financial, operational, and social). The “new media” would be a website that you could enter all of your personal, financial and business related data. This website will have all of your passwords and information so that it can help make decisions that would have been handled by an actual secretary. Let’s say there was a fire on a train and you were going to miss a meeting because of it, the virtual secretary can look for the next available train or flight and book it for you. It can even reach out to your client and let them know that the meeting has been rescheduled or announce your issues on your social media page. There will be options where you can enter your preferences, payment info, lifestyle choices, and whatever personal information is needed to help the program make decisions for you in crunch time. You would be able to enter data via text or voice and the program can make the best decisions for you. This program will basically help you manage your life and business. This would allow you to use staff for other things or help you reduce costs by minimizing headcount. This would be a wonderful program but I don’t think artificial intelligence is that far yet. Soon…