Futuresinfocus

We live in a converging world of physical and virtual opportunities. Sometimes these converge with interesting positive upsides like Amazon, or Uber Eats, or Airbnb. AI is at the center of these digital companies as they scale massively to deliver near-instant value through data, from physical data to the virtual world and from the virtual world to the physical world. Those able to combine physical and virtual have been able to dominate traditional thinking and established norms in transformative ways, This is the new world order, the new way business will happen. Data-driven, near-instant, AI instructed, and near-instantly agile and effective.  Now apply that thinking to the world of intelligence and national defense. Converging virtual and physical threats and opportunities and the realization that a digital-led, data model is where we are going. The US Airforce’s first chief software officer talks to us about that future and our choices in the 2030s.