With sizable gains to be had for both consumers and businesses, we could be embarking on a sixth wave of innovation, fueled by smarter connected products and machines working to reduce waste, create new efficiency and power entirely new business models.
As they become smarter and more widespread, autonomous machines are bound to end up making life-or-death decisions in unpredictable situations, thus assuming or at least appearing to assume moral agency.
International Business Machines has relied on Analytics, Smarter Planet, IBM cloud and other new initiatives to drive growth the past few quarters and this continued in Q1 2013 as well.