The Applied Innovation Framework

I have been talking around my Applied Innovation Framework (AIF) all month. Why is it necessary for our field? What we will build over the next decade does not fit into our current paradigms and frameworks.

Machine Learning models are virtual representations of real world systems. The physics engines behind games have moved from rules based to model based. Those models are increasingly complex and do a much better job at generalizing to a larger set of game play scenarios.

Rules engines used to drive all our automation. As models replace expert systems and improve their abilities to generalize, we open completely new possibilities. We can build more digital twins for real world systems.

Web 3.0 is poorly understood because we do not have the frameworks to explain it. It will suffer from the same stumbles every other new technology wave has unless we build out the frameworks first. Technology waves are limited at first because we try to stuff them into our existing frameworks and hobble them in the process.

Generals prepare for the last war. Businesses innovate for the last technology.