Big Data, Serious Games and the Future of Work

Michael Hugos CIO at Large

Center for Systems Innovation [c4si]

Simple abstractions served well when data was scarce, collection was intermittent, and we had lots of time to analyze it

These abstractions live in two dimensions – X and Y – they live in Flatland

“You call me a Circle; but in reality I am not a Circle, but an infinite number of Circles… You cannot indeed see more than one of my sections, or Circles, at a time; for you have no power to raise your eye out of the plane of Flatland...” Edwin Abbott Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, 1884

Sphere as seen in Flatland – drawing by A. Square

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions… a

“It is always nighttime in the Metaverse, and the Street is always garish and brilliant like Las

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•  Sysco is wide and flat. WW Grainger is tall and narrower – name those shapes •  Grainger has much higher ratio of net tangible assets to total assets •  Sysco has total liabilities four times as large as Grainger and net tangible assets slightly smaller than those of Grainger

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Serious Games

The Future of Work