Topic 1: Will Bots Take Jobs?

AI Robots are coming for your jobs! Or - in a much more realistic interpretation, they are coming to reduce the amount of mundane process work that humans do so they can focus on interpersonal stuff that robots can’t do.

We take a mostly positive spin on this one.

Related Link:

https://www.axios.com/robotic-process-automation-office-work-7151009d-131c-4d30-a064-757e2454470c.html

Topic 2: 100 Million IOT Devices Compromised

Scary fact: As the number of deployed devices continues to grow exponentially, the size of these incidents will also continue to grow. This will also have an effect on our liability insurance and state/provincial legislation.

Related Link:

https://www.wired.com/story/namewreck-iot-vulnerabilities-tcpip-millions-devices/

Facebook group mentioned: MSP Regulation and Legislation = https://www.facebook.com/groups/3011459202301532

Topic 3: Data programming and analytics on Fiverr

This is the gig-afying of some very cool new skills. This is an area where we think IT service providers can make some good money.

Fiverr is at www.fiverr.com - Now offering database development, data analytics, machine learning, and more.

See specifically https://www.fiverr.com/categories/data.

Book Mentioned: A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink

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