Executive Summary

The Coresight Research team is at the annual CES event (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas this week. This is what we see as the hottest takeaways from the third day:

• Artificial intelligence (AI) will destroy, create and change jobs.
• Companies in diverse industries are refashioning themselves as tech companies.
• Autonomous vehicles are coming; however, human-machine interaction appears to be the best solution for the near future.
• Alibaba is taking B2B e-commerce to a new level with technology and services to offer global e-commerce to small businesses.
• 5G wireless will change our lives and create new activities in ways we have not yet imagined.