We are building a world that moves faster than we can think.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer just about smart lightbulbs or connected fridges. We’ve quietly moved into the era of the Ambient Future, a massive, invisible network of real-time connections that are beginning to run our cities, our hospitals, and our global supply chains.
The problem? We are still trying to manage these lightning-fast, self-adjusting systems using "slow" governance. We’re essentially trying to use a paper map to navigate a self-driving car. In this article, I look at why our traditional approach to strategy is breaking down and why we need a new "Temporal Ethics", a way of governing technology that happens in the blink of an eye.
Key themes I explore in this piece:
The Intelligence Connection: Why the "Ambient Future" is more like a living organism than a collection of gadgets.
The Decay of Data: Understanding why information in these systems loses its value in seconds, and what that means for decision-making.
Architecting Trust: How to build ethical "guardrails" directly into the code, rather than trying to fix things after they break.
The challenge of the next decade isn't just making things "smarter", it’s ensuring we don't build a world so complex and fast that we lose the ability to steer it.
