Future Work Automation: My Computer Computing My Entire Workday

In the [near] future, our work will become more automated much like the driverless cars that delivered us to the office or jobsite.

I ran a GoToMeeting with screen-sharing and a conference line with a potential business partner regarding a new product development project. After the call, I summed my notes in OneNote "by hand" and recorded the action items for the next steps.

In the future:

• A OneNote-like application will know that call existed before hand, because it is integrated with Outlook Calendar, and create a new Note automatically for my records in OneNote.
• On that new Note, after the call, the full recording will be saved as well as a written transcription.
• My computer will sum the call up with key notes, promises or action items I have made on the call, and offer up recommended follow-up meeting dates in Outlook Calendar.
• The Note will be linked to from the two new contacts I met on the call from my contact database in Salesforce.com.
• Salesforce.com already offers to me the ability to Connect with these new friends on LinkedIn.
• All I will have to do is view the new Note and confirm/edits the details - a terrifyingly manual process.

With all the automation coming, remember, hard work is good. We are designed to work and create; I look forward to the added efficiencies so that I can put my computing power to other things.