The Institutional Affiliation
Emerging technology paper
Modern life offers us innovation technology every year. According to Bernard Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer of IBM Corporation, the top emerging technologies of 2015 list included “fuel cell vehicles, next-generation robotics, recyclable thermoset plastics, precise genetic-engineering techniques, additive manufacturing” and other great breakthroughs (2015).
Some of them sound unbelievable and still haven't become an irreplaceable part of people life. Nevertheless, some emerging technologies which were introduced in the previous years are widely used by companies and individuals. Mobile collaboration is one of them. Mobile collaboration is “an advance from past year which create powerful new ways of using technology” (MIT Technology review, 2014).
Nowadays people perform more and more operations using their smart-phones and tablets. Intense life pace and lack of time often require working on a go, outside of the office or in places without convenient working conditions. Despite the variety of innovative software application, none of them offered a comprehensive set of features until 2014. Almost two years ago users met Quip, the application which allows a team work with the same document simultaneously. Such innovation immediately became one of the most often used application, in particular, by people who work in offices or deal with documents a lot.
The emerging technology has numerous benefits and ways to be used in the work environment. It allows working on a file anytime and everywhere. A startup investment firm CIO, for example, shared his experience of using the innovative software. Thanks to it, David and his team were able to work on a post and make changes while he was in a subway. Everyone was working on one file, editing it at the same time, and following each others updates. Mobile collaboration saves time, takes team-work to a whole new level, it “highlights an aspect of group work that received scant attention in the days when coworkers gathered together in offices”, and helps to generate new ideas during the work process (MIT Technology Review, 2014).
I gladly use the new software myself and do not recognize any drawbacks of adding this new technology so far. I believe that it made smart-phones and tablets more productive and useful, while the work environment expanded its limits and possibilities.
Reference list
Greenwald, T. (2014). Mobile collaboration. MIT Technology Review. Retrieved February
19, 2016.
Meyerson, B. (2015). Top 10 emerging technologies of 2015. World Economic Forum.
Retrieved February 19, 2016.
