Bots will replace people before they replace apps

The bot land grab is officially under way and everyone is rushing to recreate successful app ideas in chat interfaces. Somehow the old pitch by analogy -- we're "AirBnB for pets" -- has found a way to be even less original. Now any aspiring entrepreneur need only take the name of a successful app and add "as a chatbot" at the end. Of course, this is nothing new. The exact same thing happened at the start of the mobile revolution.