Technology’s Triple Transformation: Combining, Converging, and Compounding At Historic Speed
New business models and paradigms will have economic and societal costs.
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Technology isn't just changing, it is roaring forward at historic speeds, breaking paradigms and business models with societal and economic costs.
What we are living through can be nicely summarized by the 3C Framework, which captures how technologies evolve.
It isn't a single technology that "changes everything" like historical periods where steam or electric ruled supreme, but a convergence of technologies that interact everywhere, to change everything, all at once.
The 3C Framework:
🔹 Technologies Combine to create capabilities impossible through any single innovation.
🔹 Value chains Converge, opening new market positions and revenue streams.
🔹 Benefits Compound as adoption scales, accelerating further innovation cycles.
Eight Maturing Foundational Technologies Driving the 3C Transformation:
1️⃣ Al domain
As a general-purpose domain, it presents a dynamic breadth of subcomponents in a layered maturity landscape that makes it a unique interlocutor for integrating, enhancing and embedding across all other domains.
2️⃣ Omni computing domain
The next frontier will be shaped by increasingly autonomous, small, efficient and multi-faceted intelligence systems working together. These hybrid intelligence architectures will get away from a one-size-fits-all approach and bring new sophistication and specificity to AI’s applications.
3️⃣ Engineering biology domain
Engineering biology is transforming how biological systems integrate with physical and digital technologies, creating new capabilities across healthcare, manufacturing, and environmental management.
4️⃣ Spatial intelligence domain
Spatial intelligence represents a fundamental shift in how physical environments are perceived, analysed and interacted with.
5️⃣ Robotics domain
Falling prices of robotics hardware components, a burgeoning ecosystem with new entrants and increasing global competition are making the field of robotics advance at unprecedented speed.
6️⃣ Advanced materials domain
Progress in advanced materials is fundamentally transforming how technological solutions are designed, manufactured and implemented across industries.
7️⃣ Next-generation energy domain
Next-gen energy represents a fundamental shift in how energy is generated, distributed, and used. In a business world shaped by the energy transition, these technologies offer a pathway towards accelerating tech innovation and scalability.
8️⃣ Quantum technologies domain
Quantum technologies represent perhaps the most transformative yet challenging technological frontier, pioneering a new era of computational, communication and sensing capabilities.
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