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EMERGING CONCEPTS
The following is a list of interesting and emerging concepts that we’ve conceived, popularized, or documented over the past two decades for further analysis and consideration.  In many instances, the domain name representing the concept has been registered and pointed to this page.  If you’d like to brainstorm in greater detail about the opportunities or risks associated with these concepts, please contact us.
AugBots – Augmentation Bots will engage in perceptive task management and communication on our behalf in the near future. If I always text my wife when I’m heading home from the office and my cell phone knows I’m in the car and heading that way, an AugBot will text her on my behalf.  As the convergence of mobile, bandwidth, machine learning, and persistent geo-location continue, we will increasing rely on AugBots to assist us every day.
Augmented Intelligence – Stutter-step on our way to achieving artificial intelligence in which technology augments our intelligence, but only in ways that are predefined by its creators.  Siri is a perfect exampled of Augmented Intelligence.
Augmented Reality – A virtual layer superimposed on one’s perception of the real world that may be indistinguishable from reality.
Big Data – Analysis of large complex data sets will have profound implications in the near-future.  The concept of big data has been a reality we’ve worked within for a decade, but were first indoctrinated into using the term big data to describe it by Bob Gourley.
Can You Trust Your Toaster? – Subtitle for a 1996 paper by Matt Devost, Brian Houghton, and Neal Pollard exploring the potential threat of cyber terrorism.  The toaster was used as an analogy for the “Internet of things” and connected devices that would populate our homes and offices in the future. Read [Information Terrorism:  Can You Trust Your Toaster?]
Cold War Two – Are the U.S. and Russia in the midst of a second Cold War dominated by regional political issues and operations in the cyber domain?
Connected Living Facilities – A play on assisted living facilities that are designed not for elderly persons but technology addic