Bot apps, the invisible interface, and a 100 billion dollar market -- Bot Apps

And this opportunity is bigger and more user friendly than any app platform yet. Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and Slack are a few of the biggest names leading the way. In the past week, the media has been in a bot frenzy, brought to a peak by Facebook's announcement of a complete platform for building experiences inside Messenger. A flurry of articles have come out proclaiming there to be a new gold rush on bots, with some calling Zuckerberg's announcement "the most consequential event for the tech industry since Apple announced the App Store and iPhone SDK in March 2008." Zuck's was the second top-shelf tech keynote talking about bots this spring.