This is certainly reminiscent of the Dot Com era where everything transformed from "Brand" to "Brand.Com" overnight. This was to show being forward thinking, in-tune with technology and also played into market position and potential valuation of brands and companies in peoples' minds.
Continuing to explore intelligence models and AI, I used ChatGPT, the conversational AI model from OpenAI, to answer a question about remote work. Following is the unedited answer to my question. Interestingly, I feel the answer is quite good and written in a very understandable and approachable manner. This is a reason why a large number of jobs and roles will change radically over the coming years. ChatGPT's answer:
So the dilemma isn't AI taking over the world in the next 5 years. The dilemma is a radical restructuring of business models, processes and systems that eliminate a critical human aspect before economies, countries and society as a whole are ready for those changes.
Technology adoption will remain a key driver of business transformation over the next five years according to the report. Over 85% of organizations surveyed identify adoption of new and frontier technologies as the most likely trend to impact their organizations. Big data, cloud computing and AI are assumed by over 75% of the companies as technology that they will adopt.
How can one successfully apply intelligence to a situation without the inclusion of empathy, and for that matter respect? How will empathy be added to the equation?
As soon as a business is more than regional, it is critical not to confine one's thinking to geographical boundaries. Global implies being everywhere, working everywhere and creating everywhere. If it's important not to confine one's thinking to geographical boundaries, isn't an office or office campus a geographical boundary?
How can the United States effectively compete with a nation that is dedicated to advancing and exploiting AI (China) while the US itself seeks to reign in and put a cap on the companies that potentially have the critical mass to actually succeed on a global scale?
That is what this will come down to. Technology in general and artificial intelligence specifically will drive future economies and future successes and failures. In an ideal world, everyone would ride the wave of productivity, reengineering roles jobs and careers in as evolutionary manner as possible and create a new order where most everyone is better off.
If you cannot possibly imagine how technological change in general or innovation in AI specifically can disrupt what you do or how you do it, you need to get a bigger imagination (see what I did there?).
One online definition for hybrid work states: Hybrid work is a flexible work model that supports a blend of in-office, remote, and on-the-go workers. It offers employees the autonomy to choose to work wherever and however they are most productive.