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Social Media Week LA 2017

By on June 8, 2017

Social Media Week is a leading news platform and worldwide conference that curates and shares the best ideas, innovations and insights into how social media and technology are changing business, society and culture around the world.

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Introducing Language and the Machine: Algorithms and the Future of Communication

By 2022 there will be more than 6 billion digitally connected citizens, 10 billion connected devices, millions of autonomous chatbots, trillions of sensors and networks so fast that communication will happen faster than humans can process a single thought.

Communication is defined as the imparting or exchanging of information or news and language is a system of communication and so whether we are communicating verbally in writing or using photos and videos, in the future our words will be mediated and modified by technology.

And so as software advances and as the proliferation of technology impacts more people on the planet we believe one of the most important questions to ask is what will this mean for the future of language and human communication?

5 Emerging Trends

To understand this at a more macro level, here are five trends that help us understand the importance of this question:

  1. Video viewership is exploding, with Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook Live leading the way. Video formats are also changing and so as a medium expect some huge shifts in form and function.
  2. Messaging is dominated by Facebook and WeChat, it’s growing rapidly, and evolving from simple text communication to become our new home screen with options for vivid self-expression and commerce.
  3. Rise of voice interfaces because they’re fast, easy, personalized, hands-free, and cheap, with Google on Android now seeing 20% of searches from voice, and Amazon Echo sales growing as iPhone sales slow
  4. Rise of machine assisted communications, including Facebook’s Messenger app and new API for developers. Includes chat based commerce, customer support and mobile payments. In 2017 we might see the first friend-bots where people become attached the the bots they interact with each day.
  5. New layers of immersion and new fields of reality never experienced before via AR and VR, which impacts how we communicate, how we play games, watch films and interact with doctors, teachers and how we travel the world.

How Can You Get Involved in 2017?

  1. Sign up for our weekly digest of top articles, industry news, and conference announcements
  2. Attend an official Social Media Week conference around the world
  3. Host SMWi in your city, our independently organized events during one of the four editions of the SMW conference
  4. Host an event during one of our conferences and help drive the conversation
  5. Write for SMW News to share your own ideas and become an official contributor
  6. Share our 2017 global theme with friends, colleagues, and your various communities using #languagemachine

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