Despite ominous forecasts from typewriter executives, we all know how this story ends. And a slew of other innovations have followed: the Internet, email, smartphones, Wi-Fi, GPS, and many more.
What revolutionary technologies are on the radar today? Here are five technologies that today’s experts are discussing and could very well be commonplace in offices by 2020.
Remote Workers as Robots
Yahoo YHOO +0.39%’s CEO Marissa Mayer caused a media frenzy earlier this year when she declared that employees would no longer be allowed to work remotely. But in 2020, advances in the speed of Internet connections and mobile phone networks are expected to lead to an increase in telecommuting, and technology will need to keep pace.
That’s where technologies like Suitable Technologies Beam telepresence robot play a part. The 5-foot robot has a screen that will beam a video-stream of a remote worker. The remote worker can even control the robot to move around the office, and microphones and cameras on the robot keep them in the loop of everything happening closeby.
