How technology-enabled 'selves-improvement' will drive the future of personal productivity

Michael Schrage is a research fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) and the MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of The Innovator's Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas. Alexa and Cortana are acoustically at your service. Digital assistants and bots undeniably enhance our work lives in myriad ways. They're terrific; your wish is their command. And they literally acquire more "skills" every day.