Vision 2020: The Business of Connecting People, Things and Businesses with Equal Access

“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”.

------ Leonardo da Vince

Predicting the future of technologies and their impact on business is an uncertain endeavor. Even when you make a prediction that turns out to be right in the long term, it may not be visible to the short-sighted pundits who consider themselves as the high-priests of information technology business. As you can trace the history from my 60+ posts on LinkedIn the multi-cloud predicted a decade ago is a reality today while many over-hyped technologies such as Storage Area Networks, OpenStack, and Virtual Machines (VM) are on the wane.

Last year, I predicted:

• Potential VM layer elimination,
•  Elimination of legacy and VM networking layers,
• The beginning of crypto-security and digital asset management, and integrated human and machine consciousness and culture.

I was very fortunate in working with some great minds in mathematics, philosophy, computer science and Information Technology practitioners during the past two years and I feel emboldened to pronounce that the next decade is going to pave the path with advances in both the theory and practice.

The result I believe, will be that by the end of the decade, we will have a new generation of information processing systems built solidly on theoretical foundation as important as the Turing Machines proposed seventy+ years ago. There are two important areas that we benefit from these advances:

1. Commoditization of computing resources breaking the tendencies for vendor lock-in and technology monopolies will allow a new generation of edge cloud network which will provide equal access to connect people, things and businesses driving the convergence of rural and urban economies with services such as tele-learning, tele-health, tele-commerce and other tele-services.
2. Our understanding of consciousness and the new mathematics of named sets, knowledge structures, cognizing oracle agents and structural machines will pave the path to build a new class of sentient, resilient and intelligent systems called autopoietic machines. Autopoietic machines will address the current data governance, privacy and security issues that plague current state of the art information technologies.

In this post I will present the case for the first prediction and I will leave the second for the future.

Edge Cloud Network Connecting People, Things and Businesses with Equal Access

Here is a video that summarizes the vision 2020.

Next video presents some thoughts on how edge cloud networks can equalize the urban and rural economies.

Here are some things the Tower Operators need to address in integrating multiple technologies, processes and businesses to provide equal access in connecting people, things and businesses with efficiency and resiliency at scale.

Here are some recent papers that support why next decade is ripe for realizing Vision 2020:

Mark Burgin and Rao Mikkilineni, (2020) From Data Processing to Knowledge Processing with Schemas in Autopoietic Machines Preprint.

Mark Burgin, Rao Mikkilineni, Vidya Phalke. (2020) Autopoietic Computing Systems and Triadic Automata: The Theory and Practice. Advances in Computer and Communication, 1(1), 16-35.DOI: 10.26855/acc.2020.12.003

Mikkilineni, R. "Chapter 16: Convergence of Natural Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence" World Scientific Series in Information Studies, Theoretical Information Studies, pp. 391-415 (2020).

Mikkilineni, R. Information Processing, Information Networking, Cognitive Apparatuses and Sentient Software Systems. Proceedings 2020, 47, 27.

Mikkilineni, R. Going beyond Church–Turing Thesis Boundaries: Digital Genes, Digital Neurons and the Future of AI. Proceedings 2020, 47, 15.

Burgin, M.; Eberbach, E.; Mikkilineni, R. Processing Information in the Clouds. Proceedings 2020, 47, 25.

R Mikkilineni, M Burgin, (2020) Structural Machines as Unconventional Knowledge Processors, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Proceedings 47 (1), 26.

Mikkilineni, R.; Morana, G. Post-Turing Computing, Hierarchical Named Networks and a New Class of Edge Computing. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 28th International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), Napoli, Italy, 12–14 June 2019; pp. 82–87.

Cammarata G., Mikkilineni R., Morana G., Nocita R. (2018) Improving Security with Cognitive Workflows. In: Barolli L., Xhafa F., Javaid N., Spaho E., Kolici V. (eds) Advances in Internet, Data & Web Technologies. EIDWT 2018. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75928-9_38

10.  Mark Burgin, Eugene Eberbach, and Rao Mikkilineni. Cloud Computing and Cloud Automata as A New Paradigm for Computation, Computer Reviews Journal Vol 3 (2019) ISSN: 2581-6640. https://purkh.com/index.php/tocomp