Does your product have ears, eyes, mouth & nose?

Are we talking about human's here? Before building any product - the few questions that come to my mind are:

1. What is the unique or  distinguishing feature of this product?
2. Does it have the flexibility to adapt?
3. Is it able to measure itself over a period of time?
4. Is is reaching out to the right people in the right way?
5. Is it able to perceive when things might go wrong?

Let's understand what is meant above here by some examples first.

Consider the development of touch enabled phones - if you look at any phone today, it is touch-enabled, it wasn't so maybe a decade back but one concept, one idea & thought forward changed the perception.

Now consider another example here - the early operating system days - someone in earlier point in time said - let's not re-invent the wheel, this is when new operating systems were coming up, so gradually we kept to few good ones, which are still being used today. Each company developing those operating systems had an opportunity going forward - to make the OS refined and better.
A lot of work has been done to make the OS more refined & optimised & so has the effort to put the hardware at par with the software but some of basic usability features still loom in each OS like for example -

Download - still in a browser allows you to save to 'downloads' - no matter what browser is being used, there is no program in the OS to pick the file and push it to a location which matches the place where you intend to use it (well, now we are talking about a neatly stacked file system).

Any ideas here? well, consider the laundry routines - you just got a bunch of clothes, wouldn't it be nice if the clothes were sorted for you & you wouldn't have to sort them out yourself. Vala -- that's where the intelligent operating system comes in place.
  -- It knows over a period of time what goes where, gives you a one time interface and does your file moving for you.
  -- Next piece is the desktop,  I know always cluttered with everything that is needed - the software will look at the files there as well & push them to the location where they need to go.

A software which enables this feature will be able to monitor & enhance itself over a period of time, as long as it has the right variables monitored.

Now let's take it to the next level - a conversation with your OS: "Can you download top 5 articles on nature photography and update them to my photography project?"

This should be possible with the system learning how I use it, what photography project means to me & how I would be able to pick it up later in order to continue my work on it.

So the system knew - I was talking about 5 articles from x, y & z sites, I was talking about forests & animals when I said nature, I was talking about my photography - 2020 folder & my blog suitcase app when I said project & I was talking about the system giving a rank for each feature for the articles for the processing it needs to do before I can pick the articles up.

Now that's what I would call a breathing system - has a small mind of it's own & somewhat knows what it's doing - that might be called 'intelligent'.

Hope it gives an idea in terms of what a product should be in the near future..