Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has come a long way. Though it was invented long ago, it was hardly ever used by anyone. However, time and technology have now changed significantly. Audio transcription has substantially evolved. Technologies such as AI (Artificial Intelligence) have powered the process of audio-to-text translation for quick and accurate results.

What Did Ray Kurzweil Predict? Communicating with someone across the world by smartphones, lighting the house with electric light bulbs, and even traveling outside the earth with spaceships are all things, which human beings could have never ever imagined before and which have come into the reality in the past hundreds of years. Human beings have conquered countless difficulties and crossed technology thresholds, and that leads to a question: when the next breakthrough will happen and what it will be like. Historian Yuval Harari points out that human immortality is possible in the future, and humans change it from the imagination to a technical problem. This idea is approached by Michio Kaku, a physicist, in two ways: one is to create brains that have consciousness and processing functions exactly like real human beings, and the other one is to model a real brain in a biological way.

When Evgeny Likhoded was working on regulatory implementation projects at Morgan Stanley, he realized how doing manual paperwork and documentation was the main pain point for financial institutions. In his words, the "internal processes without any technology were not working anymore." With the aim to "create a real-time collaboration platform allowing compliance risk and legal teams to work on content and documents in real-time," Likhoded launched AI-based RegTech firm ClauseMatch in 2012. Essentially, the platform enables users to manage enterprise policies. These compliance documents are required to be refreshed every year and the ClauseMatch platform automates the tasks eliminating operational risks.

Work has gone digital, paper is still important, but process intelligence sits at a higher level. Organizations in every vertical have always relied upon a certain quantity of paper since the dawn of known time and, despite the rise of digital, that basic truth isn't going to change. Although invoices are now largely digital, boarding passes live on smartphones and there's even an app (or two) for To-Do lists and notepads, a certain amount of paper will always feature as part of any firm's operational procedures. While the Western world replaces some of its paper consumption with technology, business growth in developing nations and the use of paper in packaging is thought to offset the trend for digitization. If we accept these basic propositions, then it should logically follow that the technology industry seeks to provide solutions to working with information in its digital form.

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all" – so said John F. Kennedy in 1963. With recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), some will question whether this statement still holds true. While computers have been used to assist with creative processes for some time, the creative input has largely been human. However, recent advances in machine learning software have changed all this. Using machine learning, computers now have the ability to'learn' without being explicitly programmed with any task-specific rules. As a result, AI is already writing new articles, poems and books, creating paintings and artistic works, producing video games, and composing music.

Would you like a version of yourself to live on after death? A radical new concept called "augmented eternity" could make that fantasy a reality, creating a posthumous impression of our knowledge, opinions and even parts of our personality in digital form. Researchers at the MIT Media Lab and Ryerson University in Toronto believe that by applying artificial intelligence to all the data we produce each day, we may be able to transfer our thoughts to a virtual entity that not only survives our physical demise but continues to learn as new information is plugged into it. Dr Hossein Rahnama, a visiting scholar at the Media Lab and research and innovation director of Ryerson's Digital Media Zone, is planning to publish a paper on augmented eternity later this year. "My ultimate goal is to bridge the gap between life and death by eternalizing our digital identity," says Rahnama, who is also founder of Flybits, a cloud-based service that modifies the behavior of mobile apps based on where and how the customer is using it.

Would you like a version of yourself to live on after death? A radical new concept called "augmented eternity" could make that fantasy a reality, creating a posthumous impression of our knowledge, opinions and even parts of our personality in digital form. Researchers at the MIT Media Lab and Ryerson University in Toronto believe that by applying artificial intelligence to all the data we produce each day, we may be able to transfer our thoughts to a virtual entity that not only survives our physical demise but continues to learn as new information is plugged into it. Dr Hossein Rahnama, a visiting scholar at the Media Lab and research and innovation director of Ryerson's Digital Media Zone, is planning to publish a paper on augmented eternity later this year. "My ultimate goal is to bridge the gap between life and death by eternalizing our digital identity," says Rahnama, who is also founder of Flybits, a cloud-based service that modifies the behavior of mobile apps based on where and how the customer is using it.

We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a result, we are developing a new language to describe our civilisation as it evolves. Here are 20 terms and concepts that you'll need to navigate our future. Back in 2007 I put together a list of terms every self-respecting futurist should be familiar with. I reached out to several futurists, asking them which terms or phrases have emerged or gained relevance since that time.

We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a result, we are developing a new language to describe our civilization as it evolves. Here are 20 terms and concepts that you'll need to navigate our future. Back in 2007 I put together a list of terms every self-respecting futurist should be familiar with. I reached out to several futurists, asking them which terms or phrases have emerged or gained relevance since that time. These forward-looking thinkers provided me with some fascinating and provocative suggestions -- some familiar to me, others completely new, and some a refinement of earlier conceptions.