Bots will replace people before they replace apps

GUEST: The bot land grab is officially under way and everyone is rushing to recreate successful app ideas in chat interfaces. Somehow the old pitch by analogy — we’re “AirBnB for pets” — has found a way to be even less original. Now any aspiring entrepreneur need only take the name of a successful app and add “as a chatbot” at the end.
Of course, this is nothing new. The exact same thing happened at the start of the mobile revolution. The top tech minds