IDG Contributor Network: Can 'things' be social?

Everyone has some concern about the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on our human job force – it’s in the news everywhere. But, what if it goes beyond jobs? What if it completely changes the meaning of other aspects of our lives and businesses that we haven’t thought much about yet? Like, how we communicate socially and who, or what, we interact with in a social network. What if this current generation of social media networks and apps is the end of social media as