Forget ‘user-friendly’ bots and focus on advanced usefulness

GUEST: Just a few months into 2017 and we’ve already reached an inflection point for consumer automation software. From Alexa stealing the show at CES to an explosion in bot development from major companies, the impact of bots can be widely felt.
The path for the bot revolution has been laid by four converging trends. It started with app fatigue, as consumers recognized that while there may be an “app for everything,” there are really only three or four we use on a da