Microsoft Research's 7 predictions: reading becomes asking, meetings become return places
jteevan · x · 2026-10-14
Microsoft Research's jteevan outlines his "7 Predictions" on how work changes once familiar proxies break: reading becomes asking; writing becomes answering; meetings become places we return to declare; audiences talk back; strategy is discovered in what people actually do; AI makes hidden questions, contributions and knowledge legible — but we must build systems that learn from them. One prediction, "Caching Thought," imagines AI learning to ask good questions by seeing which lead to later-useful thinking.
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