2016 is being declared the year of bots. And it feels like there is a broad shift in the developer ecosystem away from traditional point-and-click apps, towards chat-based user interfaces.
It’s happening because there is broad consumer and developer fatigue with apps. Consumers don’t want to install or use new traditional apps. And partially as a result, developers are faced with rising distribution costs.
This week’s war between Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and President Donald Trump over Twitter fact checking and labeling his tweets set off a bomb in Washington over tech regulation. It raised fascinating questions about the power of technology platforms over speech and was, as a technology journalist, quite fun to watch.
It also should put an end to a very dangerous myth about technology ...
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