Programmable World #TechVision THE ANALYSIS The Three Layers of the Programmable World Innovation in the physical world should be high on enterprises’ agendas. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, possible, the advancement of real-world tech we’ve witnessed a surge of new inventions to hasn’t slowed down. In fact, we’re already starting help people live more fully and easily in the virtual to see aspects of the programmable world world, and many have gotten used to a virtual emerge: Digital experiences and capabilities are lifestyle. They like the ease and personalization of coming out of screens and into the world itself; online shopping, virtual interactive learning at their ambient computing is turning our homes into own pace, and always seeing (so never forgetting) digital interfaces; and early AR glasses are letting their colleagues’ names during a Zoom meeting. people make the world their personal digital Now that the world is reopening, many people are environment. We’re starting to shift from bringing eager to return to in-person activities and many digital experiences into the physical world to businesses are eager to reopen offices and return creating physical environments and experiences to full physical world operations – but they don’t that innately are digital – that can be customized, want to leave these digital boons behind. controlled, and programmed much like the purely virtual experiences we’re so used to. And with our Though our attention for the past years has been return to the world after leading virtual-first lives for fixed on companies making digital work and life so long, the appetite for this has never been higher. Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible