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With ongoing digitalisation, dropping storage costs and increasing compute power, the barriers to use Data Science have come down significantly in the last decade.

It is surprising how much can the world change in a few years. Today, machines can see (a field popularly known as Computer Vision), they can hear (Hi Alexa!) and understand our language (field called Natural Language Processing) to a good degree. And they are only going to get better from here.

On some specific tasks, machines actually perform better than humans. This includes identifying objects in images or doing video surveillance without getting tired. We have seen drastic improvements in virtual assistants, chatbots or use of voice based systems for customer service...

The coming decade 
In the coming decade, we will see a whole range of new products which will increasingly do work we believed only humans could do for a long time. This is liberating for some of us and also challenging for a lot of us as new applications would improve our lives, but at the same point there will also be job replacements at a large scale.

But whatever happens, one thing is for sure that the coming decade is going to be exciting and Data Science will be fuelling the future for the coming years!
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