Have you thought about this? When you come back from a vacation, you don't need to go through all your e-mails and check what you have been missing. In Slack's vision of the future, it will be totally unnecessary to try to get your inbox to zero every day. In fact, it will be unnecessary to read most of your emails.

Slackbot, or chatbot, who will be able to read through your messages and summarize what you've missed and highlight the most important messages. The software will use artificial intelligence, allowing it to become smarter and more accurate over time. The co-founder and chief technology officer Cal Henderson described the future vision of Slack: A workday with less email is not only possible but coming very soon.

"There's so much to unlock there," Henderson says of artificial intelligence. "We're just getting started."

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