Messaging Is the New Platform

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Enhanced messaging is a game changer for anyone looking to finally connect meaningfully to their customers

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing the Messenger Platform last year

Something new and very big is happening in messaging right now.

To further inflect their growth curve, Facebook has released a bot platform on top of Messenger, and Twitter has accomplished largely the same via their improved DM system. Together with Samsung and their RCS messaging format (intended to eventually replace SMS, cross-platform) as well as iMessage through Apple Business Chat (ABC) we are seeing conversational interfaces that actually sets a new bar that enables a whole new set of powerful use cases on these platforms.

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The Real Risks of AI

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Augmenting our own abilities is the best possible defense


“There is a movie called ‘Arrival’ that I happened to work on as a science adviser. And it’s about communicating. I realized that the problem of communicating with extraterrestrials is bizarrely similar to the problem of communicating intentions to AIs. An AI is an example of an alien intelligence, so to speak.”

— Stephen Wolfram, CEO, Wolfram Research

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